After abortion ruling, clinic grapples with trauma (Video)

(5 Jul 2022) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4387186 ASSOCIATED PRESS Charleston, West Virginia - 3 May 2022 1. Exterior shot of Women's Health Center of West Virginia HEADLINE: After abortion ruling, clinic staff feeling fear, stress ASSOCIATED PRESS Charleston, West Virginia - 29 June 2022 ++PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOT ONE++ 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Danielle Maness, chief nurse executive and abortion team leader: "Unfortunately, as you can see, our waiting room today is empty. This is the very first day that we had to fully cancel an abortion clinic day and it's absolutely a travesty." 3. Clinic waiting room door ANNOTATION: Nationwide, workers at clinics that stopped abortion services are feeling fear as they chart a path forward following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. 4. Women's Health Center patient parking sign ANNOTATION: At what was West Virginia's only abortion clinic, the days following the court ruling have been filled with grief for staff as a new reality sets in. ++PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOT FOUR++ 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kaylen Barker, clinic communication director and chief lobbyist: "It's about so much more than abortion and people are going to be hurt because of this decision and knowing that is really heavy." 6. Women's health center entrance ANNOTATION:Women's Health Center of West Virginia staff say some patients were frantic and distraught when they had to cancel abortion appointments. ++PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOT SIX++ 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Beth Fiddler, Receptionist and Phone Counselor: "It's been a lot of calls about wanting to know if it's really illegal here. Like the disbelief that people seem to be having about it, or people want to try to find a way to still have it, like, well, 'What if it's for a medical reason?' or things like that." 8. Women's Health center empty waiting room ANNOTATION: Staff are determined to keep the clinic open, providing services like cervical exams and cancer screenings for patients with nowhere else to go. ++PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS EIGHT, AND TEN ++ 9. Katie Quionez, Clinic executive director: "We also recognize that abortion is only one piece of this puzzle for reproductive justice. People deserve to have affordable and accessible, equitable and quality, prenatal care, birth care, postnatal care, child care, and those are all things that we are certainly going to advocate for moving forward." ASSOCIATED PRESS Charleston, West Virginia - 3 May 2022 10. Various exterior shots of Women's Health Center of West Virginia STORYLINE: Nationwide, workers at clinics that shuttered abortion services are feeling fear and stress as they chart a path forward following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. At what was West Virginia's only abortion clinic, the days following the historic court ruling have been filled with grief for staff as their new reality sets in. Wednesday and Thursday were the first days the Women's Health Center of West Virginia was scheduled to see abortion patients since the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling, when the clinic had to suspend abortion services because of an 1800s-era abortion ban law. The days brought on a different kind of grief for staff as their new reality set in. Beth Fiddler sat down at her desk behind the clinic's glass reception window in the waiting room, unsure of what do. On a normal day abortion day, she'd be searching through the list of patients scheduled for the day and scanning Medicaid information into charts, checking to make sure patients scheduled to come in had completed the mandatory counseling and waited 24 hours. Subscribe for more Breaking News: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Website: https://apnews.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP Facebook: https://facebook.com/APNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/688de47fd2374f6e89e88880a578d9fe