With the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v.
"Here in Houston, the clinics that would be closest to us are outside of St. Louis in southeastern Illinois, in Colorado or in New Mexico, so a woman would have more than a days drive or not a short flight to seek an abortion, and then will have to stay overnight in the city that she travels to in order to receive the healthcare that was otherwise available here in our city," said Sheila Katz, associate professor of sociology at U of H.
When we asked her what this would mean for women without means to get an abortion legally, Katz said, "We are going to see women die. We are going to see women to attempt to access an abortion or medication that they think will induce an abortion and will have women’s mortality rates increase and that is very scary."
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