A Texas county near New Mexico — where abortion is legal — has banned helping people traveling to get an abortion in one of the newest ways conservatives are trying to restrict abortion access since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
Lubbock County is the largest of four Texas counties that have now adopted a version of the measure, which would be enforced through lawsuits filed by private citizens against people who help a women obtain an abortion. It is the same legal mechanism Texas used to enact a strict abortion law in 2021 before the U.S. Supreme Court last year allowed the state to ban nearly all abortions entirely.
