Texas woman died after an unsafe abortion years ago. Her daughter fears same thing may happen again

By Nicole Chavez, CNN
Oct 11, 2021

Outside the only abortion clinic in the border city of McAllen, Texas, a debate has played out for years. Some people pray and beg patients to not go inside as some volunteers escort patients to the entrance. But none of them were there when Rosie Jimenez died just across the street more than 40 years ago.

As thousands of people marched to the Supreme Court in support of reproductive rights earlier this month, Rosie's photo was displayed in banners and her name was repeated by crowds at vigils and rallies across Texas, Arizona, California and Oregon. In McAllen, there was a defiant mood. Activists held a rally about eight blocks from the clinic that stands across the street from city hall.

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U.S.: The last clinic: the only abortion clinic still open in the Rio Grande Valley

The last clinic: the only abortion clinic still open in the Rio Grande Valley
By Vice News on Dec 6, 2016

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This segment originally aired Nov. 29, 2016, on VICE News Tonight on HBO.

After Texas House Bill 2 became law in 2013, abortion clinics in the state were required to meet the same standards as trauma centers there, a regulation designed to make compliance so expensive that the clinics would have to shut down. Half of them did.

“People are still very confused about what’s going on with abortion,” Andrea Ferrigno of Whole Woman’s Health told VICE News correspondent Antonia Hylton. “We still see patients coming in thinking that abortion is illegal.”

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Source: VICE