How to Get an Abortion in Texas

I've been trying to figure out how the on-the-ground battle in Texas and Mississippi to obtain an abortion works. Finally, I found this interview with a young woman who lives near the border with Mexico and who helps women obtain out of state abortions. It wasn't necessarily a surprise but confirming nevertheless. 

This woman works in a call center. She says the call center basically is a travel agency. While keeping the caller on the line she schedules an abortion in some other state, arranges an airline ticket and pays for the whole thing. Money comes from donations coming in from all over the U. S.

This does not make it easy for the women who need abortions. They often have to miss work costing them money. Some have never been on an airliner nor left the state of Texas. But, as with every story I've read about abortion, they are determined and force themselves forward toward their goal.

The work these women do to make all the arrangements for abortions should be considered against the law in Texas. An ordinary citizen anywhere in the country can turn them in, correct big money and the state of Texas will foot their legal fees. So why can they continue to do this?

We have to remember first the state government is not the enforcer here. It is ordinary citizens. Whether it is government or citizens there may be reluctance to become involved. To one set of people, anti abortion zealots, you are a hero. Perhaps to you family and friends not to much. Your boss might not like you for doing that. 

If there ever was a truism, it's that laws prohibiting what many in the public want are hard to enforce. That was true during prohibition. It's true of abortion. It is believed approximately the same number of abortions are performed in countries where abortion is illegal as where it is not illegal.

To make abortions available to low-income women all of us who can need to send money. With enough staff making arrangements for abortions and enough money to pay travel women can plan their pregnancies and achieve the goals they have set for themselves and their children.