After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, women at an abortion clinic in Texas were in shock and disbelief. “Please help me,” a patient whispered to a staff member, offering to give her a stash of money for abortion pills.
, nor Texas’s existing onerous regulations against it, had altered her brisk morning habits. Tucking her graying, hip-length hair into a bun and covering it with a black surgical cap, she sterilized all the syringes, counted the curettes one by one, and waited for her colleagues to trickle in. Only Ivy’s message to her patients had changed. Now every greeting had to come with a disclaimer.
Despite the tension, for the next hour, the workers tried to focus on their particular responsibilities, including answering the phone, which rang constantly. The faster they worked, the more patients they could ready to see the doctor, who would either give the eligible women pills to begin a medication abortion or proceed with a surgical one. But at 9:11, before the doctor had walked through the door and any abortions had commenced, Sheila heard from an A.C.L.U. lawyer.
Two of the patients, wearing bright fluffy slippers, stared into space, speechless. A third, who wore black horn-rimmed glasses, burst into sobs. The fourth, who spoke no English, asked, “,” meaning “We can’t do it now.” The woman, who was of Cuban origin, had no reaction, so Sheila asked Ivy to do a better translation. “Mi amor, the Supreme Court just ruled that abortion is banned in Texas,” she said in Spanish. “We cannot assist you.” The woman froze, in disbelief.
When the last patient of the morning left, the clinic’s reception area turned into a kind of mission control. Ivy began storing patient records in boxes while two of her colleagues tried to call women who had appointments that afternoon to tell them not to come. Other staffers struggled to understand how the decision would impact their livelihoods. Business in the clinic would vanish, and it wasn’t hard to figure that they’d all be losing their jobs.
Staff members called patients to cancel their appointments and watched as President Joe Biden addressed the nation, saying it was a “sad day for the court and for the country.”
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