"The New Mexico Health Care Authority, $2,980,083.31 was paid in PregTerm through 2022- 2024. The New Mexico Health Care Authority does not have documents responsive to the remainder of this request."

"Dear Mrs. Shaver, no we do not know of an government agency that would have this because Medicaid, as we have indicated, does not pay for this. You could try private entities like planned parenthood. Thanks, HCA IPRA Team."

"It is very frustrating when a state agency, like the New Mexico Health Care Authority, that is entrusted with public information withholds, denies and even changes the information when it is requested by the public. This is unfortunately the norm in Democrat run states like New Mexico. The New Mexico Health Care Authority denied that Medicaid even pays for abortions but gave two contradicting dollar amounts for PregTerm (short for Pregnancy Termination) which is regarded as medical or surgical abortions. For a state that is so proud to champion abortion, why are they so unwilling to release actual abortion numbers that state taxpayers have funded? Is this an indication that they know how evil abortion really is and are attempting to hide this information from the public?"

The New Mexico Supreme Court has ruled that the State must cover all medically necessary abortions in its Medicaid program using State-only funds. The Court based its decision to expand coverage of abortion services on the State Constitution's Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Specifically, the Court found that the Medicaid agency's rule prohibiting State funding for certain medically necessary abortions denies Medicaid-eligible women equal rights. The agency's rule results in a program that does not apply the same standard of medical necessity to both men and women, and there is no compelling justification for treating men and women differently with respect to their medical needs."

There is a definite trend in New Mexico to promote abortion but keep citizens in the dark about their shameful deeds. During the most recent 2024 legislative session, radical abortion legislators introduced multiple bills to suppress abortion related data. Unfortunately, one bill did pass, SB57 which prevents the public from knowing the names of abortion providers, employed by a public body. It begs the question, why do you want to hide your identity if you are so proud to take the lives of little babies by performing grisly abortions, some up to 32 weeks of pregnancy? The citizens of New Mexico deserve transparency from their government and every innocent life should be protected under the law, born and preborn," stated Tara Shaver.

UNM Hospital has betrayed women and children by blurring the lines of true medicine. True medicine heals, not harms all of the individuals entrusted into their care, both born and unborn. Doctors can't deliver babies at UNM Hospital and also kill babies at UNM Center For Reproductive Health abortion facility and maintain our trust, stated Tara Shaver of Abortion Free New Mexico.

Abortion Free New Mexico leaders, Bud and Tara Shaver, have redefined the American Mission Field as full-time pro life missionaries to New Mexico since 2010 and are considered by the radical left as, "some of the country's most strident activists opposed to abortion!" With the help of Operation Rescue and Fr. Stephen Imbarrato they have exposed New Mexico to the world as the "Late-Term Abortion Capital" a designation they coined based on their ground breaking research.

• This largest-known study of the abortion pill is based on analysis of data from an all-payer insurance claims database that includes 865,727 prescribed mifepristone abortions from 2017 to 2023.
• 10.93 percent of women experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion.
• The real-world rate of serious adverse events following mifepristone abortions is at least 22 times as high as the summary figure of “less than 0.5 percent” in clinical trials reported on the drug label.
• The FDA should immediately reinstate its earlier, stronger patient safety protocols to ensure physician responsibility for women who take mifepristone under their care, as well as mandate full reporting of its side effects.
• The FDA should further investigate the harm mifepristone causes to women and, based on objective safety criteria, reconsider its approval altogether.

Abortion Pills Represent Over Half Of All Abortions In New Mexico

While ALL of the abortion facilities provide the abortion pill, half (6) of the abortion facilities across New Mexico exclusively provide only chemical abortions also known as medical abortions. 

ALL of the free-standing abortion facilities distributing the abortion pill across New Mexico are prescribing the medical abortions well beyond the FDA’s approved cut off of 10 weeks. 

It's no surprise that a drug with a black box warning is more dangerous than originally thought. The sad thing is that most, if not all, abortion seeking women will not be informed of the facts listed in this report. New Mexico abortion centers are making these drugs even more accessible and dangerous by going beyond the FDA's limits. Every abortion is an injustice, a crime against humanity, the abortion pill drugs should be taken off the market immediately."

The Good News

This downward trend signals that fewer women are making the tragic choice of abortion, even in a state where abortion remains legal up to the date of birth. That change may be due in part to increased education, public awareness campaigns, and spiritual outreach. Organizations like Abortion Free New Mexico have actively sought to reach women through billboard campaigns along major highways from Texas, offering messages of love and encouragement to mothers in crisis. One reads simply, “Mommy. Be brave and turn around. I love you.”