A Texas abortion clinic survived decades of restrictions. The Supreme Court may finally put it out of business.

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Abortion clinics, and the patients they serve, have always had to adapt to changing laws and tightening restrictions. But the Supreme Court seems poised to deliver the fatal blow they’ve been dodging for decades.

Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services is a testament to the hoops Dr. Alan Braid, its owner, has had to jump through to continue to provide abortions in Texas., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.

One patient said she took two pregnancy tests, one positive, one negative, so she decided to come in just to be safe. Nothing showed up on her ultrasound, so clinic staff told her to take another test in a week and come back.“Can I just take the [abortion] pill to be sure?” But over the last nine months, abortion clinics, and the patients they treat, have started to adapt to life under the new law.

Andrea Gallegos, executive administrator of Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services in San Antonio, stands outside the facility for a portrait on June 14, 2022.Last week, Gallegos sat at the front desk of Tulsa Women’s Clinic, the sister clinic to Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services, looking out at the waiting room. For months, every chair had been occupied as women poured over the state line, seeking abortions they couldn’t get in Texas.

“A lot of people who come to our clinics, this is the first time they’ve seen a physician about their pregnancy,” Gallegos said. “This is their first sonogram. They may decide they want to continue the pregnancy, but they don’t have an established OB, so we give referrals for that. We’re a line of support, no matter what they decide.”“It’s really scary,” Gallegos said.

First: A staff member at Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services wears a shirt in support of Dr. Alan Braid. Last: “We’ve always been ready for whatever comes our way,” says Braid, the clinic’s owner and an abortion provider.As a young medical resident in San Antonio, Dr. Alan Braid was called on to treat a 16-year-old girl who’d arrived at the emergency room after a botched, illegal abortion.

“We were ready, though, in case the ruling didn’t come down our way,” he said. “And I never regretted it, because we’ve been able to treat more patients and more serious cases.”

 

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Abortion laws in the US -- and in Texas -- are less 'restrictive' than much of the modern world (Europe is more 'restrictive') only a handful of very dark places on earth abort more for any reason at any time. The headline is obviously intentionally dishonest.

Awesome news that the death chambers who’ll be closed!

People are going to have to start thinking more before having indiscriminate intercourse.

If they don’t want to get pregnant, shouldn’t someone tell them to just keep their legs closed? No sex=No pregnancy!

Gee. Can't imagine WHY. Not as if you've declared that BEFORE she even misses her first period, she is NAUGHT but an incubator for cult members.

😟 that’s the goal right? To create fear and chaos.

This is something a woman should never have to go through.

Maybe, I don't know, maybe they should try not having sex or not having unprotected sex?

You actually expect us to believe this story.

This makes me so angry and sad the torture these people are going through just to get an abortion no thanks to the brutal control freaks.

That's absolutely disgusting.

Good. Abort Roe.

Truth is, folks just need to mind their own business. Why is that so hard?

This is what happens when you legislate by emotion instead of science. 'Fetal heartbeat' is 💯 🦬🏒 Angels on the head of a pin

I mourn in advance for the many women who will die at the hands of back alley abortions. It's like we need to learn our lessons over and over again. You're not stopping abortion, you're stopping SAFE abortion.

TexasNewsHound Thank You God!

People will always need affordable birth control, guess that's not what Planned Parenthood was about.

Any week now could be the end of our rights and the beggining of the dark dystopian GQP christian-sharia law era

Finally shutting down a death chamber is cause for celebration

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