DALLAS — Rayenieshia Cole did not want another child. She couldn't afford it.
A single mother who made her living dancing at a strip club, she had few relatives in Texas to help raise her three boys.
When Cole learned she was pregnant last fall, she visited an abortion clinic, where she passed an ultrasound screening — Texas had just enacted a law prohibiting abortion after about six weeks — and made an appointment to return the next day to end her pregnancy.
