Within an hour of news breaking that the U.S. Supreme Court had struck down Roe v. Wade, the phones at the Boulder Valley Women’s Health Center started ringing.
Not just one or two calls, but at least a dozen — coming from states where patients had appointments scheduled, but had to cancel them and scramble to find alternatives after the ruling stripped away constitutional protections for abortion and allowed states with trigger bans to immediately outlaw the procedure.
In the ruling’s wake, abortion providers across Colorado are seeing increased demand — and are coordinating to refer clients to each other in an effort to ensure people can be seen in a timely fashion, even if a particular clinic doesn’t have availability. They say they’ve been inundated with requests for abortion appointments and also are seeing an increase in appointments for birth control strategies such as vasectomies or intrauterine devices.
Cohen said she expects demand for abortion services in Colorado will only grow as more states ban or restrict abortion care. But Peters, like other medical professionals and support staff, is willing to make the sacrifices. Some of the medical assistants in particular who work at her clinic could probably get higher-paid jobs at other facilities, “but because they care about what we do, then they’re willing to work for a little less and work a little harder,” she said.
Dr. Nancy Fang said her clinic at UCHealth on the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus provides about 300 abortions per month and anticipates expanding to twice as many over the next few months. They’re looking to hire more trained professionals to work as medical assistants, nurses and front-desk staff.
She added that she’s worried people with more complex medical situations will have a harder time finding clinics that have availability for them, and for those that can’t, they will continue high-risk pregnancies that could be dangerous for them.
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