If you’ve been keeping up with the news on the other side of the pond, then it’s likely you’re experiencing anxiety right now. On Friday, the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade, the landmark decision in 1973 that protected a pregnant person’s right to abortion across America. This means states can now limit or ban a woman’s right to abortion altogether.  There are 13 states with so-called “trigger laws” in place, which outlawed the procedure immediately when the decision took place. 

Campaigners have called this a “war on women” with individuals forced to resort to buying pills online or seeking other potentially unsafe or medically unapproved options, as well as a worrying trend that would see people being prosecuted for having the procedure or “aiding” them, whether that’s doctors and medical staff or the Uber drivers who took them there. It all feels incredibly dystopian.  

For the women working at abortion clinics, it’s an unnerving and uncertain situation. Here, Stylist speaks to a volunteer escort – who ensures women get to their appointments without being harassed by protestors, where she’s worked for 20 years – at Kentucky’s only independent abortion clinic about the reality of working through this historic moment in time.