I went up to Kansas to talk to folks at Trust Women clinic about the Texas abortion ban - including a woman who had to travel overnight. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
2/I also spoke with protesters outside the Wichita clinic who said they were encouraged by the Texas abortion ban.
3/“They told us to get ready because people are going to come from south and all over to get here,” said Joseph Elmore, 73, who was protesting outside the Kansas clinic.
4/Ashley Brink, director of the Wichita clinic, said they’re adding staff, supplies and renovating to serve more women from surrounding states.
5/The poster shows plants traditionally used to induce abortions.
6/Papaya is among plants traditionally used to induce abortions, and doctors also use it to train to perform them. The Wichita clinic director also has a papaya tattoo.
7/Ashley Brink, the Wichita abortion clinic director, talked about how she thinks abortion should be treated like any other medical procedure, without legal hurdles or shame. She wears abortion necklaces and has a sign in her office that sums up her view.
8/The “abortion desert” around #Texas is expanding. Here’s a map:
9/I also visited Trust Women abortion clinic last year to talk to Texas patients who had to travel due to bans there and in OK: latimes.com/world-nation/s…
10/And I talked to women at the Wichita clinic in 2016 when Texas laws meant they had to travel: latimes.com/nation/la-na-a…
11/What does the #Texas#AbortionBan mean for migrant women? Those along the border can’t travel north through @CBP checkpoints. In 2016, I visited Whole Woman’s Health, the only clinic in #RGV - and crossed to Mexico to ask about buying abortion meds. latimes.com/nation/la-na-b…
12/More to come on our @latimes podcast, where you’ll hear from all sides included in our story. Value our on the ground, inclusive coverage? Please subscribe!
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Thread: A day in the migrant camp of about 14,000, mainly Haitians, near the border bridge in Del Rio, Texas.
2/@CBP doesn’t allow press to enter the camp from the U.S. and closed the border bridge, so I crossed to the East, drove through Mexico and waded across the Rio Grande.
3/Haitian migrants I met spoke Creole to each other, but many also spoke Spanish, some French and English. These guys told me in French that they were deciding whether to return to the camp or stay in Mexico.
A year ago, I met transgender migrant Mayela Villegas, 27, in a Mexican border tent camp before she crossed legally to claim asylum in Texas. At the end of May, a friend contacted me to say Mayela had died. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
2/ Mayela’s friend had a question for me after she died: “Is there any way you can help us find what happened to her?” Here’s what I found. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
3/Mayela’s friend Deisy Polanco told me she had struggled since arriving in Houston. Mayela lived with conservative, religious family members who called her by her male birth name and male pronouns. “For me, you’re Mayela,” Polanco would tell her. “I don’t know any other name.”
@GregAbbott_TX reduced the number of locations where voters can drop mail-in ballots, claiming he was “enhancing ballot security.”
As of Friday, mail ballots can only be delivered by eligible voters to a single location in each of Texas’s 254 counties.
2/ #Texas#PollWatchers may observe in-person ballot deliveries at each county location.
“These enhanced security protocols will ensure greater transparency and will help stop attempts at illegal voting,” @GregAbbott_TX said
3/ Harris County, which includes Houston, is the third-largest county in the country by population with 2 million registered voters. Before Abbott’s announcement, the county had a dozen ballot drop-off locations. #TX is one of five states already barring widespread mail-in voting
On May 31, I and other journalists were attacked by @MnDPS_MSP In July, I submitted a complaint to the state, including photo and video of the attack and injuries plus witnesses. So far, no results.
2/After I filed the complaint, I was contacted by an investigator - former law enforcement - who interviewed me and said he would be gathering evidence.
3/Recently, the official investigating my complaint emailed me this form which asks whether I'm married/who my spouse is and requires me to claim "damages" for an "accident." @MnDPS_MSP attacked me. It was no accident. I filed a complaint for accountability, not damages.
1/Here's the story behind: Californians moved to Oregon for affordable housing. Wildfires left them homeless latimes.com/world-nation/s…
2/First, thanks to photog and #Oregon resident @KatieFalkenberg who got me back to cover Latino communities in Phoenix/Talent. #SomosLAT
3/Thanks to Shannon King, the first evacuee we met, and her 7 year-old daughter Cheyenne, who showed us what the story was really about: A complex, working class community including many California transplants. You can find Shannon here: facebook.com/profile.php?id…
2/George Atiyeh's grandson was out helping douse spot fires last week - I met him in Mill City my second day in Oregon. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
3/ In Mill City, Ore., I also spoke with Stephan Weaver and other volunteers fighting fires who remembered Atiyeh as part of their Santiam Canyon community: latimes.com/world-nation/s…