Isabela Espadas Barros Leal is an associate editor for NBC News' diversity verticals based in New York.
Though American and Mexican women have long relied on one another for abortion care, the impending restrictions in Arizona are set to create a regional lack of access that spans into the neighboring Mexican state of Sonora — where abortion is also banned with minimal exceptions. Such stringent abortion restrictions have left organizers scrambling to support women seeking care on both sides of the border.
“The serious thing is that women’s vulnerability is being abused, the situation they are going through, but also that they are playing with women’s health.” A blueprint for cross-border collaboration After Texas implemented a six-week abortion ban in 2021, activists in Mexican border states began receiving a flurry of calls and messages from American women seeking care on their side of the border. Only one state along the Texas border, Coahuila, allows abortion in the first trimester.
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