Texas Women Drive for Hours for Abortions After New Law
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) The 33-year-old Texas woman drove alone four hours through the night to get to the Louisiana abortion clinic for a consultation. She initially planned to sleep in her car, but an advocacy group helped arrange a hotel room.
Single and with three children ranging from 5 to 13, she worried that adding a baby now would take time, food, money and space away from her three children. She doesnt have a job, and without help from groups offering a safe abortion, she said, she probably would have sought another way to end her pregnancy.
If you cant get rid of the baby, whats the next thing youre going to do? Youre going to try to get rid of it yourself. So Im thinking: What could I do? What are some home remedies that I could do to get rid of this baby, to have a miscarriage, to abort it? And it shouldnt be like that. I shouldnt have to do that. I shouldnt have to think like that, feel like that, none of that.
We have to be heard. This has got to change. Its not right.
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