Inside Four Abortion Clinics the Day Roe Ended

<p><i>This episode contains strong language and mentions sexual assault.</i></p><p>The Supreme Court decision on Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade sent abortion clinics into a tailspin.</p><p>That day Rosenda, a receptionist at a family planning clinic in Arizona, spent eight hours on the phone telling women the clinic could no longer help them.</p><p>“I wanted to hug her, I wanted to help her but I know I can’t,” she said of one patient she called. “I wanted to scream.”</p><p>In the hours after the decision, we spoke to clinic doctors and staff members trying to make sense of the news.</p><p>Want more from The Daily? For one big idea on the news each week from our team, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-daily?module=inline">subscribe to our newsletter</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The overturning of Roe set off<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/us/roe-abortion-us-reaction.html"> waves of triumph and of despair</a>, from the protesters on either side massing in front of the Supreme Court, to abortion clinics and crisis pregnancy centers.</li><li>Over the weekend, anti-abortion forces vowed to push for near-total bans in every state in the nation, and abortion rights groups insisted they would harness rage over the decision to fight back in the courts.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/06/26/us/abortion-roe-wade-supreme-court"> See our updates from Sunday.</a></li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>