WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:02.580 --> 00:00:08.481 I think the first few times of coming in when it was completely empty of patients, 00:00:08.481 --> 00:00:12.700 it's sad, it’s eerie, you get angry. 00:00:12.700 --> 00:00:15.820 All of those feelings kind of come up. 00:00:15.820 --> 00:00:23.010 How crazy, how grotesque, how cruel is it that we have this perfectly state-of-the-art 00:00:23.010 --> 00:00:28.696 facility that we could use to provide this, and we can’t. 00:00:30.856 --> 00:00:35.671 Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that ended the constitutional right to abortion, 00:00:35.671 --> 00:00:40.181 Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services is relocating to Illinois and New Mexico. 00:00:43.257 --> 00:00:48.994 Providers are being asked to do exactly what patients are being asked to do. 00:00:48.994 --> 00:00:56.750 Patients seeking abortion that live in an anti[-abortion] state are forced to find that 00:00:56.750 --> 00:01:04.010 health care elsewhere, and providers are being forced with the decision of, do we relocate? 00:01:04.010 --> 00:01:09.930 And we don’t receive grants, we’re not a nonprofit, and we still technically own 00:01:09.930 --> 00:01:16.580 this multimillion-dollar facility, and that’s receiving absolutely no revenue right now 00:01:16.580 --> 00:01:22.629 while we’re also trying to open clinics in two states that nobody officially lives in yet. 00:01:23.900 --> 00:01:31.349 How do we help Texans and how do we help Oklahomans and are we leaving them behind? 00:01:32.140 --> 00:01:35.030 In the end, I think this is how we help them. 00:01:35.030 --> 00:01:41.920 We’re going to be in states that both Texas and Oklahomans, it will be a real consideration 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:45.566 to make the trip to either of our clinics. 00:01:46.520 --> 00:01:53.170 I might get anywhere between 10 and 20 calls a day, compared to what we used to get when 00:01:53.170 --> 00:01:56.442 we were open and maybe 100 or more. 00:01:57.710 --> 00:02:02.409 Just a little while ago, I answered a phone call and it was someone trying to make an 00:02:02.409 --> 00:02:07.135 appointment and I had to explain the circumstances. 00:02:07.361 --> 00:02:16.877 You feel that stress when you tell someone that, “If you want this, you need to travel out of state." 00:02:17.980 --> 00:02:25.001 Across Texas, 50,000 to 55,000 people obtained abortions each year from 2014 to 2021. 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:29.060 Gallegos has a family connection to abortion advocacy. 00:02:29.060 --> 00:02:32.530 Her father, Dr. Alan Braid, owns the clinic. 00:02:33.530 --> 00:02:36.110 Free our sisters, free ourselves. 00:02:36.110 --> 00:02:39.090 Free our sisters, free ourselves. 00:02:39.090 --> 00:02:46.030 When he was doing his residency, this was pre-Roe [v. Wade], he always remembers a 00:02:46.030 --> 00:02:52.599 — I believe she was 16 — had come in from a botched abortion. 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:57.076 Basically she had rags packed in her vagina. 00:02:58.030 --> 00:03:04.210 The smell, he says, he still remembers that smell of the infection. 00:03:04.210 --> 00:03:09.650 They tried to do what they could to fight the infection, but it was already so advanced 00:03:09.650 --> 00:03:10.397 that she ended up dying. 00:03:13.021 --> 00:03:21.807 He knew that reproductive health had to include abortions and was determined to make that part of his practice. 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:30.730 We will have access again, but I think that is going to take a long time. 00:03:30.730 --> 00:03:39.282 And I think when we do, if my dad is around, I feel confident that he would reopen a clinic in Texas. 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:48.140 Roe was incredibly important and necessary when it happened. 00:03:48.140 --> 00:03:53.440 However, I don’t feel like it was ever enough. 00:03:54.143 --> 00:04:00.902 My body, my choice.