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Feb 13, 2023 · We live in a giant state. It takes me three hours on the highway to get to Albuquerque,” said Charlene Bencomo, executive director of the New Mexico reproductive justice organization Bold...
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Feb 7, 2023 · Charlene Bencomo is a lifelong New Mexican, wife, mother, Chicana, and former bilingual special education teacher. Her experiences as a Nationally Board Certified educator have given her in depth knowledge on many of the challenges facing families in New Mexico today, and a unique perspective on the supports that help maintain and build resilience.
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Texas passed SB 8in May, and it took effect on Sept. 1. It makes abortion after six weeks of pregnancy illegal. Abortion rights proponents point out that many people don’t know they are pregnant before six weeks. For the last three and a half years IWR has been operating, the average gestation of their callers’ pregnancies has been 10 weeks and fou...
Texas and other states already have “targeted restrictions on abortion providers,” which force clinics to spend money to jump through legal hoops rather than provide care, Lorenzo said. Those restrictions can include costly and often burdensome building requirements or mandates to have transfer agreements or admitting privileges to local hospitals ...
Abortion providers in Texas will do what they can to connect people with clinics in Oklahoma — or Louisiana, when and if they have electricity in the wake of Hurricane Ida, Lamunyon Sanford said. But those states are also more hostile to abortion, with more restrictions like mandatory ultrasounds or mandatory waiting periods, she said. “It might be...
Bencomo and Lorenzo said the new Texas law will further endanger and criminalize people who have miscarriages and go to the hospital for emergency treatment, who could be falsely accused of having tried to self-induce an abortion. “We have had to do policy education with our callers, because they don’t know the law in their state,” Lorenzo said. “A...
Las Cruces based Executive Director of Bold Futures, Charlene Bencomo discusses the Catholic Church’s recent statement on a COVID 19 vaccine and its link to a larger pattern of denying care and...
Mar 20, 2021 · An excerpt: "Over the years, Kat and I began to share stories and life experiences, all of which had one resonating theme. Once we named it, it began to take shape. We are Pochas.
