The day Roe died: inside Arkansas’s last abortion clinic

Patients left behind accounts of their experiences at the Little Rock Family Planning Services clinic before it was shut down

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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.