Abortion in New Mexico

Abortion in New Mexico is legal at all stages of pregnancy. The number of abortion clinics in New Mexico has declined over the years, with 26 in 1982, 20 in 1992 and 11 in 2014. There were 4,500 legal abortions in 2014. There were 7 facilities providing abortion in New Mexico in 2017, and 6 of those were clinics. In 2017, 91% of New Mexico counties had no clinics that provided abortions, and 48% of New Mexico women lived in those counties. New Mexico and Arizona are the southernmost continental states where abortion remains broadly legal.

New Mexico has almost no abortion restrictions in comparison to other states. There are no waiting periods, no required parental consent, and no inability to use state funding for an abortion. In 2022, the administrator of Jackson Women's Health Organization moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico, and opened up a new abortion clinic called Las Cruces Women's Health Organization (LCWHO), due to its proximity to Texas cities like El Paso.

In New Mexico politics, the Democratic Party of New Mexico supports access to abortion while the Republican Party of New Mexico opposes abortion, including calling for restricting or banning the procedure. In the cities of Hobbs, Clovis and Eunice, local ordinances were passed in 2022 and 2023 to prevent abortion clinics from operating. These ordinances were all overwritten by a 2023 state law prohibiting local abortion bans.

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