Abortion Access for Survivors
in New Mexico
About This Event
The landscape for abortion access has drastically changed since Roe was overturned this summer. Join us to discuss how these changes are affecting survivors in New Mexico. We will look at how other state’s restrictions have impacted availability of abortion in New Mexico. We will discuss survivor’s privacy in billing and how to avoid leaving a digital trail. We will look at what is happening around the country for survivors looking to flee New Mexico. Finally, we will talk about the uncertainty ahead and making sure survivors know their rights when seeking an abortion.
About Your Facilitators
Ellie Rushforth is an attorney at the ACLU of New Mexico where she has the privilege to work to protect and expand access to reproductive rights and gender equity for all New Mexicans. Her work is grounded in the belief that reproductive justice is the cornerstone of self-determination and bodily autonomy and that everyone deserves equal and meaningful access to the care they need.
Ellie is a born and raised New Mexican who has worked on social justice issues ranging from reproductive justice and health care access to veteran reentry and immigrant rights. Before joining the ACLU, Ellie was a senior staff attorney at the Southwest Women’s Law Center in New Mexico where she worked at the cross-section of economic and reproductive justice. As a staff attorney and Equal Justice Works Veteran Legal Corps fellow at OneJustice in California, she worked to increase access to justice for rural, isolated, and vulnerable communities using innovative pro bono and civil legal services engagement strategies.
As a law student, she clerked at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in both the civil and criminal divisions, assisted indigent persons facing the death penalty at the Arizona Capital Representation Project, co-founded the National Security Law and Policy Society, and was an articles editor on the Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law.
Ellie earned her law degree from the University of Arizona and her B.A. in Political Science and Spanish from the University of New Mexico.