Abortion providers across Texas were squeezing in patients and performing procedures until minutes before midnight Tuesday as they scrambled to adapt to a new law banning the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy
a new law that took effect Wednesday
, banning the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy, the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S. Without interference from the U.S. Supreme Court before midnight Tuesday, abortions past the six-week mark are now barred in the nation’s second-most populous state and private citizens can file civil lawsuits to enforce the new law. It is possible the high court might still intervene. But, enacted in May and effective Sept.
Many abortion providers in Texas were squeezing in patients and performing procedures until minutes before midnight, when restrictions took effect, according to clinic leaders. Clinics were inundated with calls as patients sought guidance. Many providers adjusted their usual offerings to align with the new law by Wednesday.
Patients filled waiting rooms Tuesday night at the four Whole Woman’s Health clinics in Texas, said Amy Hagstrom Miller, the founder and chief executive of the abortion provider that has previouslyAt the Whole Woman’s Health clinic in Fort Worth, 27 patients were still in the waiting room by 10 p.m. Tuesday night, as antiabortion protests continued outside the clinic’s doors. Doctors were performing abortions at the clinic until 11:56 p.m., she said.
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