“Some patients broke down and could not speak through their sobbing”
Abortion bans that were put on the books in some states in the event Roe v. Wade was overturned started automatically going into effect Friday, while clinics elsewhere — including Alabama, Texas and West Virginia — stopped performing abortions for fear of prosecution, sending women away in tears.
“Some patients broke down and could not speak through their sobbing,” said Katie Quinonez, executive director of West Virginia’s lone abortion clinic, whose staff spent the day calling dozens of patients to cancel their appointments. “Some patients were stunned and didn’t know what to say. Some patients did not understand what was happening.”
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In Alabama, the state’s three abortion clinics stopped performing the procedure for fear providers would now be prosecuted under a law dating to 1951.
At the Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives in Huntsville, the staff had to tell women in the waiting room Friday morning that they could not perform any more abortions that day. Some had come from as far away as Texas for an appointment.
“A lot of them just started breaking down crying. Can you imagine if you had driven 12 hours to receive this care in this state and you are not able to?” clinic owner Dalton Johnson said.
In an instant, women were made slaves to their own bodies again – subordinate beings, inferior beings, beings subject to iron control and harsh revenge.
And meanwhile, women wealthy enough to fly to California or New York will still be able to get abortions. At least until the theocrats get their way; then they’ll have to go to Canada.
Or California could go full Andrew Jackson on SCOTUS and Congress… time will tell if it does.
In Minnesota, women’s rights to abortion are still covered under Doe v Gomez and we have a majority court, for now.The Supreme Court justices are appointed by the governor or elected. Keith Ellison has declared that Minnesota will protect the rights of women who come here for an abortion.
https://minnesotareformer.com/2022/06/24/roe-is-gone-but-what-does-that-mean-in-minnesota/
In the surrounding states, Wisconsin, which is largely as liberal as Minnesota but gerrymandered Republican, it is illegal. All of the surrounding states either have trigger laws to make it illegal, or will have new laws to make abortion illegal. The Fargo, ND, clinic which was the only clinic in ND with abortion services, is moving to Moorhead, MN and that’s just across the Red River.
Even with the wokeness and pronouns in the Minnesota democrats, I see myself with no option but to keep volunteering as a Democrat here.
I expect that will have been the last chance some of those women had to get an abortion and they won’t be able to, now.