Women flocking to New Mexico, Colorado for reproductive care

Procedures are up 220% and nearly 6500 women were provided medications or have had surgery to terminate their pregnancies in New Mexico — a state where Texas patients have found sanctuary. Colorado is seeing more women coming from South Dakota for their care but stress on clinics and staff is significant especially with spikes in the Trump virus. 

New Mexico is the political inverse of my home state of South Dakota. It's where after the lopsided Supreme Court of the United States aborted Roe v. Wade women are still free to exercise their reproductive rights because Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Respect New Mexico Women and Families Act that repealed the 1969 state statute banning some medical procedures. In New Mexico Medicaid covers abortions, even transportation in rural areas to get to clinics in Albuquerque. 

Graphic: NPR.