As the clock ticked toward midnight, staff at an abortion clinic in Texas rushed to provide service for their patients while they still legally could.
While she said she felt proud to be able to provide care for the patients Tuesday night, when she returned to the office early Wednesday, that feeling"was immediately replaced by the thought that we were going to come in this morning and have to turn so many women away," Sadler said.In this Sept. 4, 2019, file photo, a staff member walks in the front door of the Whole Woman's Health clinic in Fort Worth, Texas.
Patients seeking abortions had heard about the upcoming law, Sadler said, and so in Fort Worth,"the schedule was full, because patients knew it was their last resort." Clinic staff hustled to see those patients, completing 67 in-office procedures and upward of 50 follow-up appointments for medication abortions. On a typical day, the office sees more like 15 procedures and 20 medication abortion patients, according to Sadler.A signs hangs outside the Whole Women's Health Clinic in Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 1, 2021.
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