From her kitchen table in McKinney just north of Dallas, Mohini Lal spends a good portion of her weekends intently pouring over case files and answering Slack messages as her young children play on the floor beneath her.
“It looks like what I think a regular Saturday or Sunday looks like for most people—it’s just that I’m on my phone and helping people get abortions,” Lal says.
As a volunteer for the Texas Equal Access Fund’s text hotline, Lal fields questions from dozens of Texans during a typical 12-hour shift. More than eight months since the state’s near-total ban on abortion, Senate Bill 8, went into effect, she and other activists across the state have had to ramp up
