every 2.2 million women in the state. those new regulations don t go after doctors directly. they go after the clinics themselves. they basically establish that if you want to provide abortion services in texas you have to upgrade your facilities to the standards required for hospitals. multimillion-dollar facility upgrades that aren t required for doctors providing any other kind of outpatient procedures like vasectomies or oral surgery or colonoscopies. but they will be required for doctors who do abortions. nobody is expecting the clinics to be able to do multimillion-dollar makeovers into hospitals in time for the law s deadlines. what everybody s expecting, or what the law is designed to do is that the clinics are going to close down. and so just as the last two abortion clinics in the rio grande valley were forced to close last week, so too now the last abortion clinic in east texas. in beaumont and in mccown both, neither of these cities are cities where i m going to be able t