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After a Texas state law stopped abortions in 2013, home abortions have risen, according to NBC News.

It happened last week, when the Supreme Court heard the challenge to Texas law, House Bill 2 (HB2) that has led to a huge decline in health clinics servicing Texan women and men.

HB2 thus requires abortion clinics to come to par with medical standards as standalone surgery centers. It requires doctors who offer abortions to also give admitting privileges at medical centers nearby.

"By forcing clinics to close, Texas legislators have multiplied the barriers women face when they need an abortion," stated Amy Hagstrom Miller, chief executive of Whole Woman's Health and the lead plaintiff in the challenge that the Supreme Court accepted.

"Texas women are forced to go to multiple and unnecessary visits at clinics that are now farther away, take more days off of work, losing income, find childcare, and arrange and pay for transportation for hundreds of miles," said Miller, according to MSNBC.

As there were no hospitals in a circle of almost 30 miles near abortion clinics, doctors found that the costs of coming upto the standards of ambulatory surgical centers was too high for abortion clinics. Hence, many of them closed down in Texas, reported The New York Times.

As it was not possible to approach health clinics, a number of women are resorting to unhealthy methods to put a stop to them. Roe V. Wade gave women access to safe abortion clinics, but the recent Texan law seems to have thrown women back by years.