How far would you go in order to protect your right to make a choice? For some women in Texas, they may soon be considering going all the way to Mexico in order to sidestep an anti-abortion bill that has just been passed in Texas.

Many women are upset over abortion regulations that were passed by Texas legislators Friday night that institute some of the strictest abortion laws in the United States. Those same women may now start looking south of the border to carry out their abortions, which could ultimately be far more dangerous for their health.

"It's part of a nationwide effort to outlaw abortion," said Jennifer Dalven, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project. "We'll certainly be looking at that very closely in the days and weeks ahead but it's too early for me to say anything more than that."

The bill is highly restrictive for several reasons. First, it would ban abortions for women that are more than 20 weeks pregnant except in the most extreme cases. Also, abortion clinics would have to have the same standards as ambulatory surgical care centers and would need admitting privileges at hospitals nearby.

Furthermore, it has been reported that the new anti-abortion legislation could put as many as 37 out of the state's 42 abortion clinics out of business, leaving hundreds of thousands of women without access to the care they need.

So what will those women that still need an abortion do? Many are now speculating that Mexico will be the place that many of them go to. There they can find abortion pills that are both cheap and easy to purchase but that also have potentially harmful side-effects for the women that take them.

"The only option left for many women will be to go get those pills at a flea market," said Lucy Felix, a community educator here with the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. "Some of them will end up in the E.R."

Clinics now have 90 days to comply with the mandatory 20-week limit on abortions, starting Jul. 31. By next fall all the clinics will have to abide by the strict guidelines laid out by the legislation, which includes upgrading their facilities to include wider hallways and waiting rooms. Many of the abortion clinics will struggle to fund those upgrades, but they are also finding that they now have plenty of support across the nation.

"You might not see us crowding your corridors and objecting from the balconies, but make no mistake, we are still here," wrote Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood Federation of America president. "We are in Texas, in North Carolina, in Ohio, and every place a small group of politicians tries to turn back the hands of time on women and rights."