Texas abortion provider moving to New Mexico

A Texas abortion supplier introduced on Wednesday that it will be shifting its 4 clinics to the neighboring state of New Mexico within the wake of the Supreme Court docket’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.

The unbiased abortion supplier, Complete Girl’s Well being (WWH), stated in an announcement asserting the closure of its Texas clinics that it’s searching for a clinic website in a border metropolis of New Mexico to offer first- and second-trimester abortions.

The group has been current within the Lone Star State for almost 20 years and operated clinics in Austin, McAllen, Fort Value and McKinney. 

They’ve since launched a GoFundMe to ask for assist to relocate to New Mexico, following the excessive courtroom’s ruling, together with to “purchase and renovate a constructing, relocate and rent employees, and arrange licenses and certifications in New Mexico.”

A spokesperson for WWH instructed The Hill that they’re hoping to lift $750,000. As of 10 a.m. on Thursday, they’ve raised $127,010.

Sharing extra info on their fundraiser web page, the group added that opening a “brick and mortar clinic website” in New Mexico, the place they already supply digital providers, will permit them to offer first- and second-trimester abortions to folks from Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona and different states the place secure, authorized abortion care is restricted.

In keeping with WWH, New Mexico residents may even wrestle with abortion entry as a result of native clinics being inundated with out-of-state vacationers.

They added that abortion is legally protected in New Mexico with no dangerous restrictions that might “hinder our highly-trained employees from offering the compassionate, high-quality care” in its communities.

“WWH has served Texans for almost 20 years, and our love for Texans runs deep. Even when the courts and the politicians have turned their backs on Texans, we by no means will,” Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Complete Girl’s Well being and the Complete Girl’s Well being Alliance, stated in an announcement.

The Related Press reported that clinics have been shutting down abortion providers within the nation’s second-largest state Saturday after the Texas Supreme Court docket blocked an order briefly permitting the process to renew in some instances.