These days, at the Tulsa Women's Clinic in Oklahoma, you can only hear the sound of your keyboard fingers and the occasional office chair.
The medical facility is quiet and the two remaining nurses rarely get up from their seats.
In May, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed the strictest ban on abortion in the United States. It bans abortion pregnancy and allows civilians to sue people to help women end their pregnancy.
The rule change was one of the Republican state swaths passed in anticipation of the overthrow of the Supreme Court in the Roe v. Wade case, a 1973 case that established the constitutional right to abortion. did. The decision finally came on Friday.
Prior to the ban, the Tulsa Women's Clinic accepted 30-40 patients a day and performed about 500 abortions a month.
"Our waiting room is empty. This is very different from what it looked like a few months ago when every room with all the chairs was full. It's full of chairs. Often, "Clinic executive director Andrea Galegos said this week.
" So, as you know, it's very difficult to move from much of it to nothing every day. Is important to us, "said Galegos.
Gallegos has considered options, such as moving the clinic to a democracy. She said she wasn't ready to give up.
"It's important to me personally, professionally, as a woman, as a mother of my daughter. I have to stay with it," she said.
The Tulsa Women's Clinic currently only offers ultrasonography to determine the distance a woman is pregnant. No abortion has taken place, but opponents of the right to have an abortion are still standing outside the clinic. Rev. Brandon Allen is one of them.
"I'm still here because they're still open and their website advertises helping parents kill their children. As long as that is true, as long as my parents come to this place, I'm here to open my mouth to plead for mercy for these kids, "Brandon said.
