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Texas near total ban on abortions is already having a devastating real world impact for women. the wall street journal is reporting that clinics from neighboring states are being flooded with patients from texas who are seeking care, writing quote, women s health clinics are reporting an influx of patients from texas saying they re overwhelmed. they re adding hours to try to handle the backlog. to be clear, tragically, under this harsh law, these are the lucky ones, right? many, many women would not have the means or the time off from work or parenting or other duties to leave the state to access the care they need. one woman interviewed said she was forced to go all the way to denver to get an abortion because she had a heart condition that made pregnancy risky for her. i cried. i cried all the way from when they told me, through the counselor session. i didn t know what i was going to do. after a procedure, you re supposed to take it easy. i m not going to get that option ....
i am booked for the rest of this week. reporter: cbs news has rare access to the facility in denver, where nearly half the patients are texans. it s a six-week surgical with p.o. sedation. reporter: when is the last time that you ve seen an influx like this in this clinic to this degree? we haven t. we haven t seen numbers like this ever. reporter: dr. rebecca cohen is the medical director. an abortion can be painful, people can hurt, but this is different. we are seeing patients who are traumatized when they arrive. reporter: women like this 34- year-old mother of three who asked us to conceal her identity. she learned she was pregnant one day before the law went into effect. when you realized you could not get the procedure in texas, what did you think? i cried. i cried all the way from when they told me through the counselor session. ....