Providers reported ‘complete despair’ as patients with appointments only minutes away were turned away
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 and her staff called about 20 people who were scheduled to come in later that day. Some were caught off guard, Gallegos said. “Why today? Why the day ofThose turned away were patients who were now outside an already small window: in September, Texas banned abortion past six weeks of pregnancy. That law was the first in a series of abortion restrictions passed in states across the country in the last year that served as a preview of life after Roe.
“Each patient was given the opportunity to have their reactions and their emotions privately,” Sadler said, conversations clinic staff had become well versed in having over the 10 monthsIt was difficult to be an abortion provider in the only state at the time to ban the procedure so early in gestation, Sadler said.
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