New Mexico governor directs $10 million in taxpayer cash to construct abortion clinic

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) signed an govt order on Wednesday that directs $10 million in taxpayer cash to fund a brand new abortion clinic within the state to fulfill an anticipated rise in demand for the process.

The clinic is to be inbuilt southern New Mexico's Dona Ana County, alongside the Texas border, the place abortions have been banned because the Supreme Courtroom's June ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.

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"These efforts to limit entry to reproductive well being providers from different states could lead extra people to hunt providers from New Mexico healthcare suppliers," Lujan Grisham stated in a name explaining her govt order, in accordance with Reuters. "We should work to guard and broaden the supply of those providers to deal with the calls for on our system."

Lujan Grisham stated that she expects the clinic to be run out of Las Cruces, the second-largest metropolis in New Mexico, and that it might be operated by a public or non-public service supplier.

New Mexico is the one state that borders Texas the place abortion stays authorized. The process is allowed in any respect phases of being pregnant within the state.

The state is already experiencing a considerable enhance in abortion demand since Supreme Courtroom's June ruling. Deliberate Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains says New Mexico has seen a 271% enhance in out-of-state abortions because the Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies's Well being Group ruling.

New Mexico presently has three clinics that provide surgical abortion, all based mostly in Albuquerque, in accordance with the Texas Tribune. It is unclear what number of non-public practices within the state supply the process.

Abortion suppliers and disaster being pregnant facilities, which don't carry out abortions, have eyed transferring into the state to fulfill the rising demand for ladies's reproductive well being providers.

Complete Lady's Well being stated in July that it might transfer its operations to New Mexico after shuttering 4 abortion clinics in Texas. The Southwest Coalition for Life, an anti-abortion group, additionally plans to open a disaster being pregnant heart close to Las Cruces Ladies’s Well being Group.

Lujan Grisham is presently battling Republican Mark Ronchetti, a meteorologist, for reelection.

Ronchetti stated in a assertion that he's in opposition to the chief order.

"New Mexico was already the abortion capital of the US, and now taxpayers are having to foot the invoice for a clinic which can carry out abortions up to date of delivery for non-residents who come from different states across the nation,” Ronchetti stated.

Ronchetti has proposed limiting abortion to the primary 15 weeks of being pregnant, or in circumstances of rape, incest, or when the lifetime of the mom is in danger.

A FiveThirtyEight common of polls reveals Lujan Grisham forward of Ronchetti by 4 share factors.