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Running an abortion clinic while waiting for court decision

abortion rights activists sit in a huddle and carry various signs with messages like "My body my choice"
Stephanie Colombini
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The Florida Channel
Leon County Judge John Cooper on June 30, 2022, in a screen grab from The Florida Channel.

Reporters talked with three women and one man who run abortion clinics in states where abortion could become illegal if Roe v. Wade is overturned about their work.

There's no job like it running an abortion clinic. There are the clients -- so many of them desperate, in need, grateful. There are the abortion opponents -- passionate, relentless, often furious.

And hovering over it all are legal challenges, and the awareness that your clinic may be just a judicial ruling away from extinction.

Last week's leaked, draft from the U.S. Supreme Court put clinics in about half the states on notice that their time may be short.

The Associated Press talked with three women and one man who run abortion clinics in such states about their work.

Read the full story here.