Running an abortion clinic while waiting for court decision

If that happens it could spell the end of abortion in about half the states.The Associated Press talked with three women and one man who run abortion clinics in such states about their work. When she started working there, about 11 other clinics operated in the state, and some private doctors performed abortions. A few times a month they gather on Zoom to compare notes or just to vent.“It can be very isolating, particularly running a clinic in the South,” she says.Pittman knows the Supreme Court ruling could end abortion in her state. For now, abortion is legal.And as always, she focused on the women who walk past her office every day, after their appointments.“They no longer look like they have the weight of the world on their shoulders,” she says.___ CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA -- Katie Quinonez had the first of her two abortions when she was 17, months after graduating from high school. And a clinic fund that pays for abortions for those who can’t afford them will continue to do that — and it will also help with the cost of traveling to states where the procedure will be legal.“I know firsthand how critical being able to get the abortion that you need is,” she says. And with the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion, she’s beginning to think the days of the Red River Women’s Clinic are numbered.“The writing has been on the wall for a long time, but I think now it’s in ink,” she says.It wasn’t necessarily a career she foresaw growing up in a Catholic family in suburban Minneapolis, where she attended Christian music festivals with her boyfriend.But during her freshman year in college in Fargo, a good friend got pregnant. “It was like night and day,” she says.A professor recommended her for a part-time position at an abortion clinic.