![]() It’s a nearly straight line east, about two miles down one of the area’s impossibly flat streets. Fargo and Moorhead, although in separate states, are considered a single metropolitan area by locals, and the drive from the old site to the new one takes a little less than ten minutes. I visited the Red River Women’s Clinic in its new home on a humid morning in early June. It now operates in the neighboring city of Moorhead, Minnesota. Yet, unlike many clinics in states where abortion has been banned in the past year, the Red River Women’s Clinic is still in business. Today, the practice’s logo is still painted on the side of the building, but the patients are gone, and a sign in the window that once read “This clinic stays open” has been taken down. ![]() A lengthy court battle would end up keeping abortion legal in North Dakota for several more months, but the Red River Women’s Clinic recognized that it could no longer operate in the state. Wade, North Dakota’s attorney general, Drew Wrigley, certified a law banning abortion in most cases. But last June, a few days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. The clinic became a symbol of sorts: as long as it was open, abortion in North Dakota remained a legally protected option, a fact that no number of anti-abortion billboards along the interstates could override. The clinic saw patients on Wednesdays, when an average of twenty to twenty-five people receiving abortions would arrive from places such as Minot, Bismarck, or Grand Forks. ![]() For more than two decades, the Red River Women’s Clinic, the only provider of abortion services in the state of North Dakota, occupied a small brick building in downtown Fargo.
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