marva: this just happened to a patient today who was here last week.he'd had a positive pregnancy test at home. she came in. we could not see anything on an ultrasound. we could not find it an intrauterine pregnancy, which means that she was just too early. so i was not able to continue forward with the patient last week. she came back today for a follow-up exam. not only can we see her pregnancy, but there are fetal heart tones. and so we did have to turn her away. stephanie: she got caught in a place where she was too early last week, and now she's too late? marva: she was too early last week, and, six days later, she's too late. stephanie: on a typical day, before sb-8, this whole woman's health clinic in austin would be packed. today, it's been pretty quiet. they have seen a 70% drop in abortions procedures at clinics across the state compared to last year. some women are now crossing state lines to seek abortions. >> oftentimes, they're tired. they're exhausted. but, at the same time, they're so relieved that they can still get an abortion, even i

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the legal maneuvering is forcing providers like marva sadler -- >> i am certain start a five-year prison an unwanted pregnancy. >> reporter: talking about a patient found out days before expected to report to prison. due to sb8 and tough abortion restrictions the state had on the books, even before the latest ban, sadler was forced to tell her, no. >> literally standing in my lobby and i could help her. there was absolutely no medical reason why we could not help her, yet i had to turn her away. and that is heart-wrernlging. >> reporter: the impact of sb 8 is felt more in some texas communities than others. >> this will definitely affect women of color, low-income in the community much more. >> reporter: and goodwin says these laws mirror a dark time in our nation's history. >> we call these fugitive slave laws that made it legal for an individual to surveil, spy and hunt down black people. look at the texas law. it's quite similar. >> reporter: late monday the justice department filed a second challenge to the law, meaning the legal twists and turns will continue. goodwin believes that'

and you talked about this with marva.it affects us as black women so much because that woman who doesn't know if she's going to have a job when she returns is the woman that's working that minimum wage 9:00 to 5:00 job. that is us, right? you're absolutely right. those who have means, this won't affect them at all because they'll be able to get the nanny to keep the babies and get on the plane and fly over to the next couple of states over if need be. but for the woman who is barely making it where the odds have already been stacked against us, where we don't have that infrastructure of protection and take care of us from the start, this is impossible. so absolutely this will definitely affect women of color and the low-income community much more than it will affect those outside of that. >> trymaine, talk to me about the long-term effects of sb 8 for the women of texas, black and brown women of texas, especially if the doj challenge fails. >> yasmin, first of all, thank you so much for having me. obviously you've done su

women, >> to basically be an enforcer of a rule that i don't agree with, it's been extremely >> sy: marvairector of clinical services for the non-profit whole woman's health in texas, an abortion provider. with, it's been extremely emotional taxing on our staff and doctors. >> sy: “sb 8,” which was enacted lastonth, bans abortion as soon as a flutter of cardiac activity can be detected in an ultrasound-- that's as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. most women may not even know they're pregnant by then. the texas law gives women an extremely narrow window to legally get an abortion. >> this just happened to a patient today who was here last week. she'd had a positive pregnancy test at home. she came in. we could not see anything on her ultrasound, we could not find it an intrauterine pregnancy, which means that she was just too early. so i was not able to continue forward with the patient last week. she came back today for a follow up exam. not only can we see her pregnancy, but there are fetal heart tones. and so we did have to turn her away. >> sy: she got caught in a place where she w

she dropped to her knees, on the cold tile floor in front of director marva sadler, begging her to takeon. what has the last five or so weeks been like for your clinic and clinics around the state? >> right, it's just heart-breaking that people have to turn to that kind of begging. we are so supportive of people needing an abortion for any reason, and people shouldn't be put in a position to beg and to lose their dignity and to be put in this kind of position where the health care is on the line where their health and future is on the line and it also puts our staff in these horrible situations, because this staff has dedicated their lives to this work, they're highly trained medical professionals, who one day are able to help the people who need them, and the next day, they have to turn them away, all because of politics. so it has been a very difficult time. and i mean turning away young people, turning away people who are parenting, which is the majority actually of our patients, turning away people who can't have the means to travel out of state, to get time off work and child care