folks that you deal with do you think this law will affect? with fund texas choice, nearly all of them. when you look at the clients we serve, almost every client is beyond eight weeks. and how many of them don t even know they re pregnant until they re beyond six weeks? almost every one of them. we have a handful of clients that know they re pregnant before six weeks. but that doesn t it doesn t really matter, right? if you find out you re pregnant or you assume you re pregnant, by the time you might be able to get into a clinic could be right at that mark. we saw the real impact of that just yesterday. we had a client who went to her clinic appointment on august 31, had a sonogram, because texas requires you to get a sonogram and wait 24 hours before getting an abortion. she went back to the clinic on september 1 and they did a sonogram again. they measured embryonic cardiac activity and told her she was no
doesn t it doesn t really matter, right, because if you find out that you re pregnant or you assume you re pregnant, by the time you might be able to get into a clinic could be right at that mark. and we saw the real impact of that just yesterday. we had a client who went to her clinic appointment on august 31st, had a sonogram because texas requires you to get a sonogram and wait 24 hours before getting an abortion. she went back to the clinic on september 1st, and they did a sonogram again. they measured embryonic card yak activity and told her she was no longer to get an abortion because s.b. 8 had gone into effect. so you see two restrictive laws working hand in hand to stop folks from accessing abortion. the game plan has always been here, talk the talk but don t walk the walk when it comes to restricting reproductive rights because it fires up the far right, but they never did it because they re so unpopular as
and we re going to continue doing the work. but to be fair, the impact of this law is real. and we ve already felt it today. we had a client cry because there was no cardiac fetal activity and today there was and she had to wait 24 hours. so she was told she can t get her abortion. now she needs time to process that. so we re going to be here. we supported her getting to her clinic appointment yesterday. getting there today and we will support her wherever she needs to go when she decides that she needs to get an abortion and work with the clinic to do so. the way this law is structured, we ve all sort of become fast mini experts on the way that texas republicans devised this so as to avoid what happened to all the other
hello. what do you think will happen with this new law going into effect today? what will that effect in terms of your organization s work? we are here. we re not leaving. the message is clear. we re going to continue fighting and we re going to continue doing the work. but to be fair, the impact of this law is real. and we ve already felt it today. we had a client cry because there was no cardiac fetal activity and today there was and she had to wait 24 hours. so she was told she can t get her abortion. now she needs time to process that. so we re going to be here. we supported her getting to her clinic appointment yesterday. getting there today and we will support her wherever she needs to go when she decides that she needs to get an abortion and work with the clinic to do so. the way this law is structured, we ve all sort of become fast mini experts on the way that texas republicans devised this so as to avoid what s happened to all the other abortion bans they tried to pass
but to be fair, the impact of this law, israel. and we ve already felt it today. we had a client cry with our program coordinator, because yesterday she went in for her sign a, graham there was no cardiac fetal activity, and today there was. and she had to wait 24 hours, because of these restrictive laws in texas, and so today she was told she can t get her abortion. and now she needs time to process that. we re going to be, here we re supporting her getting to her clinic appointment yesterday, getting there today, and we will support her wherever she needs to, go when she decides, that she needs to get an abortion, and works with the clinic to do so. the way this law is structured, we ve all sort of become fast many experts on the way that texas republicans devised this, so as to avoid, what s happened all the other abortion bans they ve tried to pass. and other republican states have passed.