Yesterday the Washington Post published a story about a Tuscaloosa, Alabama abortion clinic that isn’t an abortion clinic any longer. I think we’re supposed to feel bad about this.
Once, it was the sole abortion clinic in this half of the state. Then Roe v. Wade fell, the legislature’s near-total ban on the procedure took effect, and the protesters who would mass in the parking lot vanished. Nowadays, the crowd that gathers when word goes out follows the handwritten signs for “FREE STUFF.”…
Abortion clinics in the Deep South were once bastions of resistance and reproductive health care, especially in smaller cities like Tuscaloosa. The West Alabama Women’s Center opened in 1992, hired 16 staff members and planned to become a full-service operation, Marty recounted. “But there was so much need for abortion that we were never able to really…
