October 01, 2021
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Podcast: Texas abortion law keeps Kansas clinic very busy - Los Angeles Times

A person wearing scrubs and gloves disinfects an examining room
Trust Women Wichita clinic staff member Lindsay Mills disinfects an examining room. The abortion clinic is seeing more patients from out of state.

Trust Women Wichita is a clinic in Kansas that has long been a lightning rod in the abortion wars. Its former director, George Tiller, was assassinated in 2009 by an antiabortion extremist, and the clinic closed for years because of that.

Since it reopened in 2013, the clinic slowly became known as a place for people from across the Midwest and South who want to end their pregnancies and must travel hundreds of miles. Now, with Texas passing one of the most sweeping antiabortion laws in the country, Trust Women Wichita is busier than ever.

Today, L.A. Times Houston bureau chief Molly Hennessy-Fiske takes us to this abortion clinic. She talks to women who came from far away to get an abortion, staffers who feel their work is more important than ever — and antiabortion activists who are counting on even more restrictive laws to effectively shut down Trust Women Wichita.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guest: L.A. Times Houston bureau chief Molly Hennessy-Fiske

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source: https://www.latimes.com/podcasts/story/2021-10-01/podcast-texas-abortion-law-makes-this-kansas-clinic-busier-than-ever

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