The Spillover: How the Texas Abortion Ban Shook Up Eastern New Mexico

Latino USA

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🗓️ 18 August 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

After Texas passed a six-week abortion ban and Roe v. Wade was overturned, many abortion clinics had to close in the Lone Star state. Some providers considered opening clinics in eastern New Mexico, so that they could keep providing services to women from Texas and other states where abortion is banned. But some neighbors in eastern New Mexico were not so welcoming to this idea.

In this episode of our continuing series “The Latino Factor: How We Vote,” we travel to eastern New Mexico to meet Latinas and Latinos who have mobilized politically for and against abortion in the region. We also learn about how the anti-abortion movement is trying to revive an obscure law from the 19th Century, the Comstock Act, to stop clinics from opening by passing local ordinances.

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0:00.0	This look older. I think this part of town is close to the tracks.
0:13.0	Today I'm in eastern New Mexico with Latino USA senior producer Martins
0:19.0	and we just arrived to a town called Clovis.
0:23.0	It's probably the older town.
0:25.0	But it's cute this architecture.
0:27.0	Which is less than 10 minutes away from the Texas border.
0:31.0	So we're in New Mexico but a stones throw from Texas.
0:35.0	There is a welcome sign that says welcome to Clovis, a community for family.
0:41.0	And then a huge cross and a large replica of the Ten Commandments.
0:48.6	And we're only eight miles from the Texas border. So even though New Mexico is a blue state, this part of New Mexico is actually kind of red.
1:01.1	It's not kind of red. It's very red. Yeah and seeing the
1:03.6	Ten Commandments is probably like the clearest sign of what kind of a town
1:07.6	you're arriving to here in Clovis.
1:10.3	Marta and I are in this part of New Mexico to report on an issue that has put this
1:17.5	remote region of the country into the spotlight, Abortion Access.
1:24.0	All you can see around here are these endless plains where they grow peanuts and corn.
1:30.0	It's a landscape that looks a lot more similar to Texas than New Mexico actually.
1:36.0	And it's not only the landscape that's similar, it's also the politics.
1:41.0	In the last presidential election, about 70% of people in this region voted for Donald Trump.
1:48.0	There are 66 churches here in Clovis and it's a town of less than 50,000 people.
1:55.0	And nearly half of its residents are Latino, Latina, Latinex, Latine,
2:01.0	or as they often say here, Hispanic.
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