Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 8, colloquially known as the state’s “heartbeat bill." The bill, which went into effect on Sept. 1, 2021 bars abortions in the state as early as six weeks or after a fetal heartbeat has been detected. Data show nearly half of Texas women who traveled out of state for abortion care went to Oklahoma in the months after the Texas Heartbeat Act went into effect.
VERIFY spoke to Liza Fuentes, a senior research scientist at the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy group focused on reproductive health rights. Liza Fuentes told VERIFY the passage of Oklahoma’s bill could mean women in Texas would have to travel even farther to receive abortion services. Guttmacher Inst. says more abortion restrictions have been enacted in 2021 than any other year since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, which gave women the constitutional right to an abortion.
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