Eight patients were in the waiting room of the Little Rock Family Planning Services clinic on the morning in June 2022 that Roe v Wade died. Until that moment, the clinic was the only place where women in Arkansas, a deeply red state, could get surgical abortions.
Natalie Tvedten, who helped found the clinic and provided counseling to patients, remembers huddling in a back room with a visiting doctor from Los Angeles after they heard the news.