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Supreme Court will rule on how much abortion can be regulated

I didn’t want to have to spend the money again.

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Participants in the study recounted their experiences and why they were forced to take such desperate measures: “I didn’t have any money to go to San Antonio or Corpus”. A 26-year-old woman in Corpus Christi recounted, “I just wanted something to work”. And if they try to end their pregnancy on their own, DeFrates said that “some will find safe methods to do so, but others will find very unsafe methods”.

According to a horrifying new study by the Texan Policy Evaluation Project, at least 100,000 Texas women – and as many as 240,000 – between the ages of 18 and 49 have attempted to self-induce abortions and that number may be rising.

Texas’ state lawyer said the new law would “raise the standard of care and ensure the health and safety of all abortion patients”.

In 2013, for example, the Texas legislature passed a law known as HB 2, which includes among other provisions the requirements that doctors who provide abortions have admitting privileges at local hospitals and that all clinics providing abortion be constructed to comply with the regulations governing ambulatory surgical centers. Increased wait times at Texas’ dwindling abortion-providing clinics will mean more second-term abortions-a grim prospect for everyone. A provision in HB2 required abortion providers to have admitting privileges with a hospital cut that number in half.

Since Roe v. Wade established abortion as a constitutional right in 1973, various states have attempted to limit access to abortions.

The Supreme Court once blocked portions of a state’s law on abortion clinics and did not take action on an appeal made by MS that would have closed down its only abortion clinic. “Nobody should be denied safe and compassionate care based on her zip code”, said Hagstrom Miller.

“Texas paints a devastating picture of what’s at stake for women across the country – where women are already traveling hundreds of miles, crossing state lines, and waiting weeks to get an abortion, if they can at all”. Overall, abortions in the state declined by 13 percent since the law was enacted.

The study notes that certain groups are more likely to be familiar with self-induction, including Latinas who are living near the US-Mexico border and women who have experienced barriers to accessing reproductive healthcare. Often, the logistical factors intermingled with poverty or feelings of shame.

Ferguson said on Monday he has sent responses to the lawmakers saying he has found no evidence that the organization is operating in violation of state or federal law. “And there was also the fact that I’m doing it at home, we’re not – though we have all of the information as to how much bleeding is too much bleeding, you know, or that, there’s always that slight uncertainty of, like, I don’t really know what I’m doing”.

Abortion providers argue that neither of the two stipulations in the law is necessary and puts an undue burden on women seeking an abortion. Researchers asked women taking the survey to report on their own, and on their best friends’ attempts to self-induce.

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“This is about putting clinics out of business”, Diane Derzis said.

Study links poverty self-induced abortion