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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Eleanor Klibanoff

Pandemonium, then silence: Inside a Texas abortion clinic after the fall of Roe

Nurse Kristina Hernandez becomes emotional while remembering stories of previous patients she helped at the Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services abortion clinic before Roe v. Wade was overturned in San Antonio on June 24, 2022.
Nurse and clinic director Kristina Hernandez remembers stories of patients she helped at Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services in San Antonio before Roe v. Wade was overturned Friday. (Credit: Kaylee Greenlee Beal for The Texas Tribune)

SAN ANTONIO — On Friday morning, a nurse at Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services in San Antonio ushered a patient into an exam room. She gave her a gown, told her the doctor would be in shortly and stepped back out of the room into a changed world.

“I saw the other nurses standing in the hallway,” said Jenny, a nurse who has been with the clinic for five years and asked to be identified only by her first name for fear of being targeted by anti-abortion protesters. “And I just knew.”

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