Patients Setting In Abortion Clinic Waiting Rooms As Roe Fell Had To Be Turned Away
Patients were in the lobby, waiting, the moment it became a post-Roe America.
The staff at Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services Clinic in San Antonio had just received a call from their attorney: Abortion procedures in Texas would have to stop immediately. The dozen or so patients in the lobby Friday morning would have to be turned away. The clinic staff would have to be the ones to tell them.
Andrea Gallegos, the clinic’s administrator, and the rest of the staff walked out and addressed the room: “The Supreme Court made this decision today and, unfortunately, your geographical location affects your bodily autonomy,” she said they told waiting patients.
Gallegos watched each word land like a blow. People cried. They screamed. They begged for help, she said. It was “complete despair.”
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