Providers and advocates in San Antonio are working to ensure that options are still available for women seeking abortion care.
or obtained in Mexico. Abortion access advocates say that has become more common since a 2021 Texas law made it a felony to provide abortion medication after six weeks of pregnancy — even though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of medication abortion for pregnancies up to 10 weeks.new penalties
“We try to make it like a slumber party and if they want to get their mind off of what they’re going through, they can,” she said. “We watch movies, hang out and eat pizza. If they want to talk about any tough feelings, the floor is theirs. We provide whatever level of care they are comfortable with.”
“We’re at the same level as the people that we serve,” she said. “We’re poor people who use drugs or [are] sex workers. We’re queer. … We really want people to be able to relate to us in that way. It’s really important to us because, I mean, that’s — that’s how people trust you and feel comfortable coming to you.”
“We wanted to make things more fun, more lighthearted,” she said, “because so much of this stuff is so serious, and we get caught up in being so serious and so intense.”For decades, Texas law has heavily regulated abortion clinics, limiting third-trimester abortion with few exceptions and requiring only licensed physicians perform abortions., non-physician health care workers — such as nurses or midwives — can perform the procedure.
There are only three clinics in San Antonio that currently provide abortions under Senate Bill 8, Texas’ new abortion law. Planned Parenthood, which operates two of those, temporarily paused abortion services after the law first went into effect but has since restarted the procedure.
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