New Mexico governor directs $10 million for new abortion clinic near Texas border

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
Updated 2105 GMT (0505 HKT) September 2, 2022

(CNN)New Mexico plans to build a new abortion clinic near the Texas border, anticipating that more abortion seekers from surrounding states where the procedure is banned will travel there for care.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, signed an executive order on Wednesday directing that $10 million from her executive capital allocation for the 2023 legislative session be purposed for a new clinic in Doña Ana County, which borders Texas' westernmost point.

Abortion is legal in New Mexico, while neighboring Texas and Oklahoma have banned abortions at all stages of pregnancy with limited exceptions following the US Supreme Court's overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, holding that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion.

"As more states move to restrict and prohibit access to reproductive care, New Mexico will continue to not only protect access to abortion, but to expand and strengthen reproductive health care throughout the state," Lujan Grisham said in a statement Wednesday.

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