After the Supreme Court on Friday overturned the fundamental right to abortion established nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade, abortion clinics in states like Michigan where the procedure could soon face further restrictions are even more on edge.
DETROIT — The flowers seemed innocent enough, but Jakaiser Jackson wasn’t taking any chances.
A ban would pose an existential threat to clinics like Scotsdale, where patients have come for half a century to get reproductive health care in a safe and welcoming environment. The clinic has been run since the late ’90s by two generations of reproductive health care providers. Sam, Scotsdale’s executive director, bought the facility with her mother, Kathy, who worked in clinical care since the ’70s. The Washington Post is not identifying the last names of both women due to safety concerns.
Sam grew up steeped in the business of reproductive health care, collating papers as a 9-year-old in the clinic run by her mother, Kathy, shortly afterbecame the law of the land. The two bought Scotsdale when the previous owner retired. Sam would go on to steer the clinic through a volatile era when threats to clinics and staff were at their height and social and political victories by antiabortion groups put a squeeze on the business.
When the CCSA clinic in Detroit she worked at began providing local abortions in 1973, the staff could hardly keep pace with the influx of patients, most of whom were college students. The early 1990s were the most dangerous — the decade that saw the highest concentration of arson and clinic bombings and murders of abortion providers, according to data from the National Abortion Federation.
Her children had to learn to be vigilant when retrieving the mail and wary of anyone who purported to be picking them up from school on their parents behalf. Sam is even vigilant about her landscaping; she’s can recite safety protocols the way some people recite baseball stats. “The people who don’t want abortion to be legal also don’t want sex ed in schools. To me it’s an endless, horrible cycle,” she said.
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