*Christina learned her fetus was likely to die. She left Texas to receive care.
*Dr. Betsy Wickstrom is an OB-GYN who works in Missouri.
We're feeling under the microscope about what we can and can't say. But if my water bottle just happens to be sitting on my desk while we are talking, and the patient happens to write the number on the label, then the patient still has the information they needed.
*Dr. Andrea Palmer is an OB-GYN in Texas who has been sterilizing more women since Dobbs.
I just finished doing a laparoscopic salpingectomy on a young woman, 23 years old, who has not had children and desires not to have children. This is one in a string of many sterilizations I've done on young women without children since S.B. 8 passed in Texas and Dobbs passed at the level of the Supreme Court. I've had so many patients who don't think that they want children, but ultimately are so scared about the lack of reproductive access that they would rather remove the option than have to deal with an unintended pregnancy.
*Dr. Kristl Tomlin was one of a few pediatric gynecologists in South Carolina willing to provide abortions.
I've had police threaten to come to my home, and I've had police call my phone and threaten me. I've had my daughter look up in my eyes and say, "Mommy, are they going to arrest you?"
*Elevated Access is a collective of volunteer pilots who fly women to their abortion appointments.
What's happened with Dobbs now is that people just have to travel that much farther. "We have a pregnant 9-year-old that needs help." Hearing those words, it's like, this is hell.
*Destini Spaeth is a volunteer for the Prairie Abortion Fund in North Dakota, where she helps women figure out everything from insurance to gas money.
I answer emails in the middle of the night. I give callers my cellphone number so that they can text me if they have any questions. I shouldn't need to do this. I shouldn't need to be fielding 17 emails on a lunch break. I dream of a time when this isn't required.
These stories are simply chilling. When We watched every single Federalist Society SCOTUS nominee sitting before the Senate Judiciary committee all assent that they were faithful adherents to precedence and the belief in stare decisis as a bedrock principle of jurisprudence. And each of them showed how faithless those promises were, even when given to a GOP Senator like Susan Collins.
The stories recounted above never should have to be told in 2024 coming from the world's alleged leader in liberty and justice for all. Yet they continue as so few seem to even be concerned with how many lives are turned upside down as thousands of women face a frightening new reality that many of their mothers and grandmothers never had to.