Abortion fund expanding services to Las Cruces

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Pink House West is one new clinic opening in Las Cruces and, before the doors opened, anti-abortion groups held an anti-abortion rally in a nearby parking lot and announced the launch of a crisis pregnancy center in the building next door.
56% : Rushforth said "we also live in an age of hyper state surveillance and accessibility of data.""As we see states and anti-abortion extremists attempt to criminalize access to legal healthcare, there are new tools at their disposal to track and monitor not only patients and providers but supporters as well.
53% : She said the organization has also seen anti-abortion protestors who regularly harass patients and providers outside Albuquerque clinics behave with greater boldness since the court overturned Roe.
46% : After Texas restricted abortion at six weeks gestation last year, many Texas patients traveled to Oklahoma and Mississippi and other surrounding states, including New Mexico.
44% : So far, some bans on abortion have become law in 17 states, including most neighboring states.
43% : For many patients of color, the cost of abortion, plus the logistics of childcare, travel and time off from work, can be overwhelming without abortion fund support, advocates have said.
39% : It is still legal to transport an abortion patient from a state that has banned abortion, such as Texas, to get to New Mexico for an abortion.
38% :Ellie Rushforth, attorney with American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, said that while some state legislatures have introduced bills to ban interstate travel for abortion, none have passed such a law.
31% : While Joan Lamunyon Sanford, executive director of NMRCRC, told NM Political Report that since Texas banned abortion after six weeks in September of last year, the abortion fund started receiving between 75 to 80 callers a month.

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