Written byState Rep. Lindsay Powell
“I can tell you which protesters will arrive at which times on Saturday, and where they’ll set up to intimidate patients,” a security guard at Allegheny Reproductive Health Center told me, gesturing toward the clinic’s front window. “Procedure days are by far the most intense – physically and emotionally.”
I heard that on a chilly morning in March 2025, as my team and I toured one of the only comprehensive reproductive health care clinics in Western Pennsylvania. Known affectionately by staff as the “mom-and-pop abortion shop,” Allegheny Reproductive Health Center has served our region since 1975, providing abortion care, contraception, infertility treatment and gender-affirming care with empathy, dignity and respect…