Here's the new reality under Texas's abortion law — and how it could affect the rest of the U.S.
CBC
The future of abortion in the United States could soon look a lot more like Anna Rupani's everyday reality.
She works in an undisclosed location, in an undisclosed part of Texas to help women leave the state to get abortions elsewhere.
Her group, Fund Texas Choice, is raising money to pay the average $800 US it costs to get patients transportation, food and lodging in states with freer abortion access.
On Sept. 1, the demand for her group's services exploded.
That's the day Texas's new law severely restricting abortion access went into effect — and Rupani's work changed instantly. Her group used to get 10 to 15 requests per week for help, she said, often for inexpensive things, such as cab fare to a local clinic. But on that first day alone, it received 42 requests, including patients needing money for interstate travel.
What worries her now? That her reality is about to spread.
The U.S. Supreme Court has just begun its fall session and will soon hear arguments on a Mississippi abortion law, a case the country has spent years been bracing for: One that could overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that treats abortion as a constitutional right.