The recent leak of a confidential US Supreme Court document has confirmed the conservative-majority court's intention to overturn Roe v. Wade, the decision that has guaranteed access to abortion throughout the United States for nearly 50 years. Such a decision would have an unprecedented impact on 75 million women of childbearing age. But at the instigation of the Republican Party, some parts of the US, such as the states of Texas and Oklahoma, are already turning into a medical desert for women who seek a termination. Our correspondents Valérie Defert and Pierrick Leurent report on the "post-Roe America".
Every morning, in front of the Tulsa Women's Clinic in Oklahoma, the same scene repeats itself: patients arrive to park in front of one of the few clinics that currently still perform abortions in this largely conservative state. Their cars are immediately wedged between anti-abortion demonstrators trying to dissuade them from terminating their pregnancy and volunteers from the clinic, like Susan Braselton. Wearing a rainbow vest, she comes out to welcome the women, protect and reassure them.
