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Texas: what assessment after 6 months of anti-abortion law?
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The Director of Clinical Services prepares the operating room at Whole Woman's Health Clinic in Fort Worth, Texas.
(Illustrative photo) © AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez
By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |
Mikael Ponge Follow
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In September 2021, Texas adopted one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the United States with the entry into force of SB8, which prohibits abortion beyond six weeks of pregnancy. .
Six months later, clinics in Texas have seen the number of their patients drastically reduced.
But does that mean that abortions no longer take place?
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According to the latest figures published by the University of Austin, the number of abortions performed in clinics in Texas has decreased enormously.
But between September and December 2021, 5,600 women left Texas to go and have an abortion in another state in the country.
This is twelve times more than in 2019. A practice that is difficult to afford for the poorest families.
California is thus considering becoming a sanctuary and could go so far as to pay for transport, housing and medical expenses for women who want to have an abortion.
Among the other possible options: abortion pills available on the internet.
On the Aid Access website, American women are put in touch with European doctors and pharmacies in India.
A medication that only works up to ten weeks of pregnancy.
Requests for abortion pills in Texas have thus tripled since September.
A file signed Thomas Harms.
Haiti: 112 people killed in Port-au-Prince in February
112 people died in acts of recorded violence, during the month of February 2022, in the metropolitan area of the capital, Port-au-Prince, according to figures from the National Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace, as we reports Gotson Pierre, editor-in-chief of the Alterpresse site.
For the current month of March 2022, 23 people have already died, half of them by bullets.
Acts of violence and crime, including kidnapping, have reached a catastrophic level in Haiti in recent months, highlighting a deterioration in the security climate on the national territory.
Thus, the Haitian Medical Association (Amh) asks doctors, private clinics and hospitals in the country to suspend health services, on Monday March 14, Tuesday March 15 and Wednesday March 16, 2022, to protest against the multiplication,
Colombia: the game of alliances for the presidential election
After the resounding victory of left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro in the primaries on Sunday March 13, 2022, center-right candidate Federico Gutierrez is calling on other aspirants to join him in uniting against the poll favorite.
Federico Gutierrez says he wants to defend democracy and freedom in Colombia.
Appeal heard by the right in power.
Oscar Zuluaga, the candidate of the Democratic Center party of former President Alvaro Uribe, in full discomfiture, harshly sanctioned during the legislative elections, has finally announced his support for the candidacy of Federico Gutierrez.
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