'My job has gotten a lot harder because I have to turn so many people away. It feels I'm going against my own moral code, in order to follow the law,' says Amna Dermish, MD, an abortion provider at Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas.
, and, today, there is evidence of the state’s continued attempts to control people’s bodies all over this Austin-based Planned Parenthood.
Wheat also hands me a large green and blue booklet with “A Woman’s Right To Know” printed on the cover, which the Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas is required by law to give to patients 24 hours before an abortion. It contains unscientific claims – including one that links abortions to breast cancer, which the
— but all of a sudden, I’m not able to do it,” he says. “Now, if you’re too far along, there are many patients we can’t help, and we have to tell them to go out of state. Patients are asking, ‘Where am I going to go? How far? How am I going to get there?’ We can help answer questions and connect people to resources, but we don’t have any firm answers.”
Madi acknowledges that she had many privileges on her side: She ultimately told her parents that she was pregnant and wanted an abortion, and they supported her and helped her pay for the travel expenses. These totaled around $2,000, partly because she had to make two trips to the clinic in Mississippi, due to logistical problems caused by a waiting period required by Mississippi law.
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