“I’m still in shock,” Johnson said Tuesday as he scrambled to reassure his staff and patients they would continue providing abortions as long as they’re allowed in Alabama. And, if so, for how long?Ī leaked Supreme Court draft opinion was ricocheting around the world.Īs Dalton Johnson, the clinic’s owner, read it Monday night, he was struck by the bluntness of the language that would end the constitutional right to an abortion,closing clinics in about half of American states, including his. The phones inside an Alabama abortion clinic were ringing off the hook: the callers wanted to know if abortion remains legal.
