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A Post-Roe America, Part 2: The Abortion Providers

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🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence. In Part 1 of our two-part series, we spoke to anti-abortion activists about their preparations for a future without Roe v. Wade. Today, we talk to people working in abortion clinics about what the potential change could mean for their patients. “Everybody’s scared,” said one provider from Oklahoma. “Every single person that walks in our clinic, you can see the fear on their faces.”

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0:00.0

Where were you, Jennifer, when you heard the news about the leak draft opinion from the

0:07.4

Supreme Court?

0:09.2

And tell me about that moment, what happened?

0:11.6

I felt like the air kind of just got knocked out of me because I was, you know, that was

0:16.8

the one thing I was kind of still like, okay, all these horrible bills are being signed,

0:21.8

but if we get, if a row can just hold, you know, we have a foothold.

0:26.6

And you know, whenever you're kind of hoping that that's the one thing that's going to save

0:30.9

you and then to find out that more than likely, it's going to fall.

0:34.9

It was just, you know, it was almost like, well, that's perfect.

0:40.8

Great.

0:41.8

You know, what are we going to do now?

0:46.8

You know, everybody's scared.

0:48.9

Every single person that walks in our clinic, you can see the fear on their faces.

0:55.7

So as of last week in Oklahoma, we cannot go above six weeks.

1:00.9

There's the SB 612.

1:03.8

So that's going to make it a felony for any doctor to perform a abortion in Oklahoma at

1:08.2

any stage.

1:09.6

And so we had women coming in, knowing that they may be the last patients that will get

1:15.8

their abortion in our clinic.

1:17.4

And it was just fear because they're like, what if this happens again?

1:20.7

What am I supposed to do?

1:23.5

So in a way, Roe was your life raft.

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