Dr. Alan Braid, owner of Alamo Women’s, said Thursday that he feared for the future of patients across Texas.
Braid had worked for a gynecological practice as an intern in 1972, before the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade upheld a woman’s right to an abortion. Three teenage patients died from sepsis after they got abortions that were not medically safe outside the practice, he recalled.
“I am deathly afraid we are going to see abortion deaths in Texas,” he said.
Tina, 36, who asked to be identified by her first name only to protect her privacy, was at Alamo Women’s on Thursday awaiting an ultrasound test to determine how far along she was in her pregnancy. She learned about Texas’ new law from a friend last week. Tina, a mother of two teenagers, a 4-year-old and a 9-month-old, said she didn’t want another child.
“I don’t think it’s right. I already have four children,” she said. “I’m going to have to travel out of state.”
SB 8 is the latest way that Texas has whittled away at abortion clinics’ ability to practice over the years. Past data have shown that access to abortions has been curtailed for Latinas far more than for any other group by the restrictions that have been implemented.
The consequences of the laws are far-reaching. In 2015, a study from the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Policy Evaluation Project found that at least 100,000 women had tried to self-induce ending pregnancies without medical assistance and that such attempts may be more common in Texas compared to other states.
Those opposed to abortion rights see the passage of SB 8 as an opportunity to help girls and women in crisis in different ways. Outside the Alamo Women’s clinic, Nix, of the San Antonio Coalition for Life, said her group realized it would need to redouble its efforts to be a “fall net.”
“We are going to see more girls coming out who thought they could have an abortion, and they can’t,” she said, adding that her organization refers such cases to pregnancy assistance centers that offer mentoring, maternity clothes, diapers and car seats. “They are going to be more needy, more confused.”
Braid responded that they would need more than what the assistance centers could offer.
“Once your uterus is empty in Texas, nobody takes care of that child except you,” he said. “But if it’s in your uterus, they are all over it.”
Suzanne Gamboa reported from San Antonio. Elizabeth Chuck reported from New York.
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