Donors who used to send $5,000 to Allied Women's Center cut their gifts back to $2,500 during the pandemic. The only problem was: Her coffers had dwindled as the need had risen. Haring believed it was her Catholic duty to help women who didn't get abortions. "They feel like they have nowhere to go, that there's nobody for them. "I always said abortion is the lack of an option," Haring said. Many couldn't afford a playpen, let alone a month's rent. The women Haring called "abortion-minded" tended to be in untenable situations. Those 3,000 babies were going to need diapers and formula and any number of more expensive items, too. For most antiabortion activists, that drop was a victory, proof that the restriction had saved more than 3,000 babies.īut stopping women from having abortions was the easy part, Haring often told people. The number of abortions had fallen by half during the ban's first month, from 5,377 statewide in August to 2,164 in September. That uptick was just the beginning, Haring figured. By late October, Haring was seeing seven or eight clients a day.
Then, in September, a state law banning abortions after six weeks went into effect. She'd helped five women a day in 2020, and she'd handed out 71 car seats, 45,569 diapers, and $71,000 in rent assistance. Already, the antiabortion nonprofit she runs had given away a record number of baby items during the pandemic. SAN ANTONIO - Tere Haring worked the math.
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