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Running an abortion clinic while waiting for court decision

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2013, file photo, Tammi Kromenaker, director of the Red River Women's Clinic, its in the waiting area of the facility in Fargo, N.D. Kromenaker has given over her entire adult life to helping women get abortions. And with the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion, she’s beginning to think the days of the Red River Women’s Clinic are numbered. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack, File) A woman has an ultrasound to verify her pregnancy inside the Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La., Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Kathaleen Pittman, director of the Hope Medical Group for Women, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Shreveport, La., Friday, April 15, 2022. Pittman knows the Supreme Court ruling could end abortion in her state. When the draft opinion leaked suggesting a majority of justices support overturning the 1973 Roe vs Wade decision legalizing abortion, Pittman says she had a “horrible feeling” in the pit of her stomach. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) The Women's Health Center of West Virginia Executive Director Katie Quiñonez poses for a photo in Charleston, W.Va., on Feb 25, 2022. Even if Roe vs Wade decision legalizing abortion is overturned, she is determined that the clinic stay open and continue providing resources like birth control, emergency contraception and testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson) The Women's Health Center of West Virginia Executive Director Katie Quiñonez walks through their recovery room in Charleston, W.Va., on Feb 25, 2022. Even if Roe vs Wade decision legalizing abortion is overturned, she is determined that the clinic stay open and continue providing resources like birth control, emergency contraception and testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson) An employee talks on the phone in a recovery room inside the Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La., Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) A counselor at the Hope Medical Group for Women talks to a pregnant woman, in Shreveport, La., Friday, April 15, 2022. There are the clients -- so many of them desperate, in need, grateful. There are the abortion opponents -- passionate, relentless, often furious. And hovering over it all are legal challenges, and the awareness that your clinic may be just a judicial ruling away from extinction. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)