Mexican state of Sonora closest to Arizona, bans most abortions, creating regional void
The Mexican state of Sonora bans abortion with minimal exceptions unlike other Mexican states, meaning that impending abortion restrictions in Arizona will create a regional lack of access for women on both sides of the border.
Though American and Mexican women have long relied on one another for abortion care, the impending restrictions in Arizona are set to create a regional lack of access that spans into the neighboring Mexican state of Sonora — where abortion is also banned with minimal exceptions.
Such stringent abortion restrictions have left organizers scrambling to support women seeking care on both sides of the border.
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“Because we are on the border with the United States, what happens there affects us,” Leticia Burgos Ochoa, an abortion rights activist and former Mexican senator based in Sonora, told NBC News.
For women in Sonora seeking safe, legal abortions, going to Arizona was already part of a limited set of options, Ochoa said.
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