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    For Supporters Of Abortion Access, Troubling Trends In Texas

    Three years after winning a big legal battle, abortion providers still find themselves losing the ground war when it comes to keeping clinics open across the huge, populous state.
    by Ashley Lopez Nov 18, 2019 5 minutes
    Kathy Kleinfeld opened Houston Women's Reproductive Services, which offers medication abortions, because she saw a need for more flexible scheduling.

    Over the past few years, abortion providers in Texas have struggled to reopen clinics that had closed because of restrictive state laws.

    There were more than 40 clinics providing abortion in Texas on July 12, 2013 — the day lawmakers approved tough new restrictions and rules for clinics.

    Even though abortion providers fought those restrictions all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, and managed to get the restrictions overturned in 2016, most of the affected clinics remain closed.

    Today, there are just 22 open clinics in a state that is home to 29 million people.

    Although abortion providers won the legal battle, they appear to be losing the ground war. Most clinics are clustered in the major cities of Dallas, Houston and Austin, while women who live in smaller cities and towns that once had

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