Desde que el estado estadunidense prohibió casi todos los abortos, el personal médico de las entidades vecinas ha notado una afluencia de mujeres desesperadas a sus clínicas.
Robert Cicchetti/iStock(WASHINGTON) Women driving hundreds of miles alone for an abortion, clinics overwhelmed with out-of-state patients, providers facing "relentless harassment" from "emboldened vigilante activities," those are some of the impacts detailed by the federal government in new court documents since the most restrictive abortion law went into effect in Texas earlier this month. Nearly a week after announcing a lawsuit against the state, the U.S. Department of Justice filed for an immediate injunction Tuesday to halt the enforcement of the law, known as SB8, which bars physicians from providing abortions once they detect a so-called fetal heartbeat technically the flutter of electrical activity within the cells in an embryo. That can be seen on an ultrasound as early as six weeks into a pregnancy before many women even know they're pregnant. In their latest filing, the DOJ documented the impact of the unprecedented law based on declarations fr