STERLING, Va. — Stumping for the Harris-Walz ticket in Virginia, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said her state is running a de facto “Underground Railroad” for abortions since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
The Democratic pol said Monday that 75% of New Mexico abortion services are performed on out-of-state patients.
“We literally now have an underground operation, not unlike something we’re all familiar with, the Underground Railroad, to try to make sure that we get to women and their families early,” the gov told the crowd of about 30 at the Northern Virginia Democratic headquarters.
“Sometimes if we save their lives, we’ve also ruined any opportunity for them to have a child of their own when they’re ready to have a child of their own,” Lujan Grisham said of some women who come to her state seeking abortions. Jason Groves/Las Cruces Sun-News / USA TODAY NETWORKShe also shared the grim reality of many patients who traverse New Mexico’s “Underground Railroad,” adding: “Sometimes if we save their lives, we’ve also ruined any opportunity for them to have a child of their own when they’re ready to have a child of their own.”
Still, she said her state is a “bastion for safe, fair reproductive access around the country.”
Lujan Grisham said her state has put up billboards in Texas — where 71% of New Mexico’s out-of-state abortion patients come from — to recruit more doctors from its neighbor to the east to practice medicine in New Mexico.
“If you’re a health-care practitioner, why would you practice here if you’re sworn to protect the lives of your patients? If you want no interference, come to New Mexico,” the gov said.
Alicia McFadden, a 44-year-old mother of two in attendance Monday, told The Post she showed up because of her passion for supporting reproductive rights.
“My baby is an IVF baby,” she said, referring to in-vitro fertilization. “I’m from Alabama, so I’ve seen very first hand people who do not have access and have their access to IVF limited. So I’m very passionate about IVF and paying for IVF. Luckily, we could afford IVF, not easily, but we could afford it, but there are a lot of people that can’t afford IVF, especially in Virginia.”
VP Harris has the edge on pro-choice voters in the election. APAsked about former President Donald Trump’s recent endorsement of IVF practices, especially his vow the treatments would be free under a second Trump term, McFadden said, “That’s not true, I don’t believe it.”
“Reproductive rights, abortion and IVF is right there together. Many times you have embryos that you transfer, and for whatever reason that you may not take, they may take, but then there’s some issue, and you need to have access to abortion.” McFadden said. “So you can’t have one without the other.”
Abortion was a major topic of discussion in Tuesday’s presidential debate, in which the candidates sparred over the hot-button election issue.
Trump reiterated that he believes in abortion exceptions in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother and applauded Roe v. Wade’s overturn for returning the decision to the states and their voters.
Vice President Kamala Harris claimed Trump would sign a federal abortion ban into law, which Trump has repeatedly said he won’t do. The veep would not answer whether she’d back any restrictions on abortion access, even in the eighth or ninth month of pregnancy, when pressed by both a moderator and Trump.






