The decision to end Roe v. Wade is 'emotional manipulation at a terrible scale.'
This as-told-to essay is part of a short series exploring abortion access in Illinois, which is preparing to become an abortion ‘island’ as surrounding states have banned or have signaled that they will ban abortions in the wake of the end of Roe v. Wade.Amy Redd-Greiner, head of front office operations at Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Illinois.Last week was the greatest shift in patient demographics because we are finally seeing the heaviest influx of the post-scheduling.
And at the other end of that phone, there is more fear, more uncertainty, more panic than we have had to deal with in the past. Just this morning, someone reached out and said, “I’m afraid. Am I going to get arrested if I come to Illinois? I know that it’s legal there, but it’s not legal in my state. So will I get arrested when I come back? Will I …”This was absolutely the goal of the Supreme Court decision. It has produced a terrible chilling effect. It is emotional manipulation at a terrible scale.
I’m rotating people on and off the phone so that they get a break from the panic. I’m thinking about what resiliency training looks like, trauma training. I’m thinking in terms and ways that we never really had to before, but trying to be as proactive of those things as possible. And just to be creative and understand that it is human beings in this building doing the work. We are not machines, we are not automated.
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