Since a near-total ban went into effect, tens of thousands of Texans have left the state to access abortion. Here’s how they do it.

By Bekah Stolhandske McNeel
August 26, 2025

At six-thirty on a hot July morning at Dallas Love Field Airport, Monica, a 28-year-old real estate agent, was standing at the curb looking for a stranger. She scanned the passersby hustling to their Southwest flights until she spotted the person she was there to help: a thirtysomething woman with no carry-on luggage. Rosie, who is using a pseudonym to protect her privacy, was traveling to New Mexico to get an abortion, which, at ten weeks into her pregnancy, was illegal in Texas. She had brought only a handbag and a light jacket to ward off the airport chill. It would be 92 degrees in Albuquerque, where she’d be spending ten hours before flying back to Dallas that evening. She had left her two kids, ages seven and eight, with a family friend. The kids didn’t know she was leaving the state—she’d told them she was catching up on some work at the cosmetology school where she takes night classes. She’d be home late, she had said, but hopefully in time to say good night.

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