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Between 100,000 and 240,000 Texans have attempted to terminate their pregnancies without medical assistance, according to new research released Tuesday.

Poverty and lack of access to reproductive health services have led nearly 2 percent of Texas women to try to induce their own abortions using medicine, teas, vitamins and other measures, according to researchers examining the impact of abortion laws in the state.

Home abortions are prevalent among poor women without access to clinics, the University of Texas study found.

And clinic closures may make it worse.

With the recent massive increase in anti-abortion laws at the state level, getting a legal abortion in America has gotten a lot harder in the past five years. This is especially true in Texas, where anti-abortion laws have closed more than half of the state's abortion clinics.

Findings show that 100,000 to 240,000 women aged 18-49 attempted at-home procedures in wake of legislative attempts to curtail abortion access in state.

Between 100,000 and 240,000 Texas women ages 18 to 49 have attempted to terminate their own pregnancies without medical assistance, according to new research.

The Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) today released a groundbreaking report on self-induced abortion.

The figure comes from the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, which is tracking the effects of House Bill 2, the 2013 law that severely restricted access to abortion facilities in the state.

There’s long been anecdotal evidence that with ever-increasing barriers to accessing in-clinic abortions, many Texans, particularly low-income Latinas living near the US-Mexico border, are turning to self-induced abortions. Now, a new study estimates that 100,000 and 240,000 Texans of reproductive age have ever attempted to end a pregnancy without medical assistance.