REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: When the strictest abortion law in the nation went into effect in Texas last month, abortion procedures all but stopped. Via rachelvscott.
We traveled to Houston to meet Dr. Bhavik Kumar inside Planned Parenthood. He told us he typically performs 20 to 30 abortions a day. But the first day theDr. Bhavik Kumar works at Planned Parenthood in Houston, Texas.
The call center at Planned Parenthood turned into a crisis hotline -- flooded with women in desperation, not knowing where to turn.Madi, a college student in Texas, sat down with ABC News' Rachel Scott on scheduling an abortion out-of-state. "To hear her beg for someone to help her was hard; she was begging," Dixon said, holding back tears."For me, I was trying very hard not to cry but the tears were coming down, they were there."As providers in the state sound the alarm, anti-abortion groups have praised the law as groundbreaking.
When Madi, a 21-year-old college student, heard the news about the Texas abortion ban, she never thought it would affect her.
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