the city of mcallen. mcallen is a small city on the very southern tip of texas, right on the border of mexico. the first abortion clinic in texas opened there? 1973, and it served women in the rio grande valley in that part of south texas for decades. even as anti-abortion republicans started to cement their control over the government in texas and year after year they devised ever more creative and draconian ways to make abortion as hard and as dangerous to get as possible in texas, that clinic in mcallen kept going. and republicans really did keep passing more and more restrictive laws, making it more impossible for clinics to stay open, making it more impossible for doctors to provide that service. in recent years texas republicans passed new abortion restrictions regularly, at least every two years with each new session of the republican dominated state legislature. and as a result of those restrictions, every couple of years, more clinics in texas would close. by the end
donoghue. the allies who helped our troops did not make it to the airport gates in time. we believe there are still a small number of american, under 200 and likely closer to 100, who remain in afghanistan and want to leave. the taliban celebrating the u.s. withdrawal with fireworks and gun fire after midnight and taliban fighters surveying the kabul airport and the destroyed arms, ammunition and aircraft that the americans left behind. coming up, we ll be speaking with former defense secretary and the cia director leon panetta on the withdrawal from afghanistan and what comes next. we re also following the devastating aftermath of tropical storm ida. millions of residents along the gulf coast could be without power for weeks. louisiana governor john bell edwards is scheduled to hold a press conference. we ll bring that to you live when it happens. first, the latest on afghanistan, nbc s chief white house correspondent peter alexander and pentagon correspondent courtney k
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