“When powerful men, wealth, and secrecy converge — and the state looks the other way — the public loses,”said Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico. “New Mexico has seen this pattern before, and we are watching it repeat itself.”

Zorro Ranch: A Destination Protected by Silence

“New Mexico wasn’t just the location — it was the environment,” Shaver said. “A place where powerful people could come and go with little oversight and even less transparency, while victims were left without accountability.”

Sexual Exploitation, Trafficking Indicators, and the Absence of Oversight

“These are precisely the kinds of abuses that thrive when institutions refuse to look, records are hidden, and oversight is treated as optional,” Shaver said.

From Elite Travel to Abortion Tourism

“Our leaders are inviting abortion tourism while stripping away the public’s ability to see what’s happening inside these facilities,” Shaver said. “That combination should alarm everyone.”

Federal Outreach Met with Silence

“When federal officials won’t even engage documented concerns about patient safety, trafficking risks, and public accountability, silence itself becomes part of the problem,” Shaver said.

SB 30 and Provider-Testified Secrecy

“We are being told this secrecy is necessary — not by patients — but by abortion providers themselves,” Shaver said.

“When regulated industries argue against transparency and lawmakers comply, that’s not healthcare policy. That’s protection.”

Ideology, Abortion, and the Normalization of Abuse

“Abortion is demonic child sacrifice,” Shaver said.

“Do our leaders realize that they have this unholy alliance with Satanists? I think it just serves to show the origins of abortion and the type of people that champion it.”

“What we are witnessing is a shift away from abortion being defended as healthcare to abortion being openly described by some groups as a ritual or sacrament,” Shaver said.

“When abortion is no longer even framed as medicine, but as an ideological or religious act, it exposes how far this policy debate has moved from patient safety, accountability, and basic ethical standards.”

One-Party Rule and Institutional Alignment

“When leadership across agencies and branches all move in the same direction — toward less transparency, fewer records, and reduced scrutiny — the public is right to question who this system is serving,” Shaver said.

A Call to End the Pattern

“New Mexico should never again be known as a place where powerful interests come to do what they can’t do elsewhere — protected by silence,” Shaver said.

“Transparency is not extremism. It’s the minimum requirement of ethical governance.”

About Abortion Free New Mexico

“Senator Heinrich responded — but he did not answer the question,” said Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico. “We did not ask for policy talking points. We asked why abortion clinics are exempt from the same routine inspections that protect patients in every other healthcare setting. That question remains unanswered.”

“If our claims were wrong, transparency would settle it,” Shaver said. “SB-30 moves in the opposite direction by restricting public access to abortion data. Instead of enforcing existing reporting laws, lawmakers chose to erase them. That is not accountability — it is the removal of public oversight.”

“Healthcare regulation depends on licensing, inspections, and enforcement,” Shaver said. “In New Mexico, abortion clinics are publicly framed as healthcare providers while being exempted from the very systems that define healthcare oversight. That contradiction has not been explained or justified.”

“If abortion is healthcare, it should be regulated like healthcare,” Shaver added. “Patients should not lose basic safety protections because a procedure is politically protected. Transparency and inspections would either confirm compliance — or reveal problems that need to be addressed.”

Transparency Eliminated, Not Reformed

“SB 30 does not improve healthcare.
It does not protect patients.
It does not reform reporting.
SB 30 eliminates transparency.”
— Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico

Questionable Medicaid Claim by Planned Parenthood Representative Raises Additional Transparency Concerns

“The All-Payer Claims Database collects claims data; it does not set Medicaid policy or impose caps,” said Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico.

“When conflicting claims are presented while lawmakers are being asked to eliminate abortion reporting altogether, that only reinforces why transparency matters.”

Public Funding Requires Public Accountability

“In the third trimester, an abortion can cost as much as $17,500,” Shaver said.
“When public money is being used, the public has a right to basic transparency — to know what their money is funding, where it is going, and what outcomes are occurring.”

“If a hard cap truly existed, it would be clearly stated in law or policy. Instead, lawmakers were asked to accept an unsupported claim while being urged to repeal one of the last remaining public oversight tools.”

Reporting Is Not a Burden — It Is Accountability

“Abortion providers already collect extensive data on every patient — voluntarily,” she said.

“They track it, analyze it, and often publicize it. What they object to is not record-keeping — it is public accountability.”

Contradiction With Lawmakers’ Stated Goals

“At a time when lawmakers claim they want transparency and malpractice reform, SB 30 moves New Mexico in the opposite direction,” she said.
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“By repealing abortion reporting without replacement, this Legislature makes it harder to track how tax dollars are spent and harder to ask informed oversight questions.”

“Authentic healthcare does not operate in secrecy.

Authentic healthcare requires standards, inspections, and accountability.

And healthcare does not ask lawmakers to look away — especially when taxpayer dollars are involved.”

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