. >> reporter: doris dixon oversees patient access at the planned parenthood in houston. says the call center is now dealing with desperation on a daily, almost hourly, basis. one woman's call imprinted in her mind. >> we have one that just learned she was pregnant on the day that the law went into effect. and they discovered she was 5.2 weeks. but she also discovered that she had coronavirus, that same day. to hear her beg for someone to help her. was hard. now she has to quarantine for 14 days. which then would put her out of the state limit of when she can seek services. >> reporter: dixon estimates that 70% of the people seeking abortion care last week were turned away. >> i take it personally. i have failed in my role to help someone. >> reporter: with nowhere to go, texas women are now forced to call clinics out of state. malia aziz knows the cost of doing just that. when she found out she was pregnant that first time seven years ago, she had just emigrated here from pakistan. >> i was in a relatively new country, i didn't know the laws and the legal system. >> repo

doris dixon, who works at a planned parenthood in houston, telling our rachel scott about one patient seeking an abortion who then tested positive for covid. she was told she had to quarantine for 14 days, but by that point, she would be more than six weeks pregnant, and unable to get an abortion under the new law. >> to hear her beg for someone to help her was hard. >> she was begging? >> she was begging. >> reporter: today, governor abbott pressed on why the law makes no exception for rape or incest. his answer -- it's not needed because the state will eliminate the crime of rape altogether. >> texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets. so, goal number one in the state of texas is to eliminate rape so that no woman, no person will be a victim of rape. >> reporter: governor abbott has not called on the legislature to take up any new rape prevention legislation. the attorney general says he is urgently exploring all options to challen