Texas Anti Abortion Law Needed to Close Instate Highways


I've been poking around the net trying to find recent stories about the volume of abortions being done in the states and in Mexico near Texas. There is little information. 

The last story I found in the U.S. was from September of 2021.  New Mexico has the most liberal and common-sense laws in the Southwest. By September of last year clinics there were swamped with Texas women coming for abortions. In addition, a back- office operation to assist women in making appointments, arranging and paying for transportation went from all volunteers to five full time paid staff members. Around $25 million has been poured into helping women from Texas get abortions.

The lack of news stories is understandable because information about getting abortions for Texas women has gone underground. Texas' anti- abortion laws give a bounty to any citizen ratting on another citizen who is getting an abortion. Inquiries from women in Texas and information to women there about getting abortions must be secret or use coded language. Women somehow find out about New Mexico and Colorado where lots of them go.

A pregnant Texas woman with a job has to lie to her employer about why she needs a couple of days off. The good thing about today's highways and fast vehicles is a nighttime trip can be made from most places in Texas to get an abortion with a return the next day. The speed limit, lightly enforced so I've read, is 80 mph in much of Texas. Clinics in neighboring states have extended hours to accommodate them.   

While the crazy Texas law has been in force for many months and upheld by the Supreme Court at least a couple of times, it has so far been a toothless law. The only case I can find of someone being prosecuted was that of a doctor in Texas who publicly stated he performed an abortion in Texas. Two people from thousands of miles away, not in Texas, filed action under the law. Like the law, the two filings are so absurd even a pro-life lawyer said the doctor will win. 

I predict the huge impact in all of this will be the long border Texas has with Mexico. Mexico just liberalized its abortion laws. This will make available the two drugs which induce abortion available to women in Texas. Women's organizations in Mexico are right now organizing to let women in Texas know how and where to buy these drugs.  There are some places one can walk across the border to shop and return in an hour. I have done that. There is an entire small city near Yuma, AZ, Algadonas, filled with drug stores, dentists and eye exam places. People park in the U. S. and walk 10 minutes into Mexico. I crossed south of San Diego into Tiwana. 

There must be thousands of anti-abortion people in Texas that right now who know of an abortion that happened or probably will happen. Why are the courts not filled with these complaints and the complainers collecting the bounty? Is the law a joke? We will find out eventually. 

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