Here, an abortion fund in Texas on the effect the state’s new extreme anti-choice law is already having on patients, as told to andreagonram
Photo: Tuan Tran/Getty Images The nation’s most restrictive abortion ban, Texas Senate Bill 8, went into effect on Wednesday, and the U.S. Supreme Court didn’t lift a finger to stop it. For the past 17 hours, abortions after six weeks of gestation — i.e., before most people know they are pregnant — have been banned in the state. And if that weren’t horrific enough, S.B.
Shae Ward is the hotline director at the Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, the oldest abortion fund in the state. She spoke with the Cut about the devastating impact the ban is having on Texans seeking abortion care and how people can offer their support right now. Before today, it wasn’t easy to access an abortion in Texas, by any means. We already have fewer clinics, which requires people to travel long distances. You have to make an appointment, and then you have to go through mandated bias counseling. The provider has to say these things to people that had medical misinformation on it. Then you have to wait 24 hours after that first appointment to get your procedure done when that also isn’t medically necessary, so you have to make two appointments.
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