are similar to texas. you can t do the procedure the same day. you have to wait at least 24 hours. i have to drive three hours and then drive back. i have to come back probably the weekend or whenever i can get my next appointment. i had two kids back to back, and then the post part m hit me hart. i just got out of it six months ago. i can t afford birth control. i try to prevent it. when you try, it doesn t always work out. it s hard to deal with my toddlers, especially when i was tired. i have to work and clean the house. it s really a lot. and i feel like people just don t understand that. it s not like i want to. like, i do want more kids, it s just not sometimes it s just the timing. i have a texas license plate. i m in louisiana. i don t know if somebody can decide they want to follow me to the hotel and be like you know you know, it can be.
let s hold off and wait on the actual recommendations, but i think this information is forthcoming and i think it is good news. thank you all. appreciate it. big day as we re watching the fda. we appreciate your reporting on this. coming up, could the virginia governor s race give us clues about what to expect from next year s midterms. we have a special look at this race, and the big warning that we re hearing from a big name democrat. and how new abortion restrictions are affecting texas women. i spoke to two women who left the state for the procedure about their decision. i would have had to wait, like, a month for my first appointment, and by that time just with the new law, i would have been out of the time limit to get the abortion. [ kimberly ] before clearchoice, my dental health was so bad i would be in a lot of pain.
patients, that the side effects that have been noticed, some of these rare clotting disorder, rare events of clots are just that. they re extremely rare. when you think of the millions of people around the world who received the vaccines, both johnson & johnson and the others, the side effects are very, very rare. the pros of getting the vaccines outweigh the cons. follow up quickly also, doctor, on both meghan and shannon s reporting about the timing as to when folks can start to get the booster shots of johnson & johnson and moderna, and subsequently children 5 to 11. a lot of people are asking about that. again, i would want to hold off on what the fda comes out with and look at expert panel recommendations and the cdc recommendations. let s wait a couple weeks. maybe as early as next week. i anticipate maybe johnson & johnson ideally in two months. it could be six months. i don t really know.
when they first released the johnson & johnson vaccine, they also came out with this rare side effect as we all remember, and hence, johnson & johnson was subsequently paused for about a ten-day period as they reviewed this rare side effect of blood clots among individuals. if you were someone who received johnson & johnson and are anticipating getting a booster shot, is there any science pointing to this rare side effect once again being a complication with this booster shot? yeah, thank you for raising that. one of the most common i guess pushbacks or concerns that i hear from people who are labeled as anti-vaxers but it includes a lot of my own patients. i serve a lot of underserved population of new york city and new york state, it s side effects. they say i heard the vaccine is more dangerous than the disease and the virus. i can get clots. it can affect my heart. so it s really important to communicate to the public and to the viewers and including my own
reporter: scary. scary. and like i said i m by myself. it s a story i think we re hearing across the board from women in texas. both of these women were mothers already. had young children at home. didn t have a lot of help at home, having to take time off of work, work they desperately needed because they couldn t really afford to have health care keep the lights on. brie, the first woman, didn t even have health care for her two children or herself. talk about how this is part of the story that you re seeing from some of the women that you have been helping with your organization. yeah. i d like to say that this is rare, but it s not. the first woman that spoke, she talked about how she had to miss work, and she had to pay for a trip. it s pretty common.