New Mexico Is a Safe Haven for Abortion Between Texas and Arizona
b'In New Mexico, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has declared the state a \\u201creproductive safe haven\\u201d between Arizona to the west, and Texas to the east. Already, she says, New Mexico\\u2019s few abortion clinics are seeing an influx of patients from outside its borders. \\u201cWhen you are a safe-haven state,\\u201d she says, \\u201cyou put real stress on [the] current provider system.\\u201d Lujan Grisham speaks with David Remnick about her executive order\\u2014issued days after the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs\\u2014to prevent the extradition of abortion providers, a request that she expects to see from Texas law enforcement. Dobbs puts states at odds over one of the contentious issues of our time. \\u201cThey\\u2019ve invited states now to fight with each other, sue each other,\\u201d she says; this is \\u201cthe most despicable and horrible aspect, frankly, of this particular decision.\\u201d'