Two years after Dobbs decision, a look at Texas' abortion fight

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(Sara Diggins / Associated Press) [Abortion funds fight on in Texas, opponents plan new fronts two years after Dobbs decision]( Reverend Erika Ferguson still has the text message from three years ago saved on her phone. She’d been counseling a young girl who wasn’t sure whether she wanted an abortion when Senate Bill 8 went into effect in 2021. The law is one of three overlapping statutes in Texas that together ban abortion in all cases except to preserve the life of the mother. The girl didn’t know how to get a bus across town, let alone fly out of state for an abortion, Ferguson told The Nation. The reverend knew she had to find a way to help. Since then, Ferguson and fellow clergy have quietly accompanied more than 100 groups of women seeking abortion on flights to New Mexico, where the procedure is legal. 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