Supreme court case prompts California lawmaker to share her abortion experience

Buffy Wicks speaks out about emergency procedure amid threat to Roe v Wade: This story is not uncommon'

Early one morning this fall, the California state assemblywoman Buffy Wicks felt a type of pain she had never experienced before.

Wicks, 44, found herself doubled over in pain, barely able to walk or get her daughter ready for school. At her doctor's shortly after, she learned that she was pregnant and having a miscarriage and would need an emergency abortion. Twenty-four hours later she had the procedure.