When the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade last June, Kamyon Conner sat at her desk and sobbed.
As executive director of the Texas Equal Access Fund – a non-profit based in north Texas that helps patients pay for their abortions – Conner was forced to shut off the group’s hotline for the first time in its nearly 20-year history. That meant cutting off a critical avenue for hundreds of largely low-income people of color to afford essential out-of-state care.