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Anti-abortion centers to grow, wield more influence post-Roe

Clinic escort Ren Allen of Jackson, calls out to incoming patients that the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic is open in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, June 25, 2022. The clinic is the only facility that performs abortions in the state. However, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protections for abortion. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Clinic escort Ren Allen of Jackson, calls out to incoming patients that the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic is open in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, June 25, 2022. The clinic is the only facility that performs abortions in the state. However, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protections for abortion. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Clinic escort Ren Allen of Jackson, calls out to incoming patients that the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic is open in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, June 25, 2022. The clinic is the only facility that performs abortions in the state. However, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protections for abortion. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Clinic escort Ren Allen of Jackson, calls out to incoming patients that the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic is open in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, June 25, 2022. The clinic is the only facility that performs abortions in the state. However, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protections for abortion. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Clinic escort Ren Allen of Jackson, calls out to incoming patients that the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic is open in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, June 25, 2022. The clinic is the only facility that performs abortions in the state. However, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protections for abortion. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Clinic escort Ren Allen of Jackson, calls out to incoming patients that the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic is open in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, June 25, 2022. The clinic is the only facility that performs abortions in the state. However, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protections for abortion. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Clinic escort Ren Allen of Jackson, calls out to incoming patients that the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic is open in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, June 25, 2022. The clinic is the only facility that performs abortions in the state. However, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protections for abortion. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Clinic escort Ren Allen of Jackson, calls out to incoming patients that the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic is open in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, June 25, 2022. The clinic is the only facility that performs abortions in the state. However, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protections for abortion. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

FILE - The Women's Health Center of West Virginia Executive Director Katie Quiñonez walks through their recovery room in Charleston, W.Va., on Feb 25, 2022. The facility has planted rows of hedges blocking view of the building next door, a crisis pregnancy center designed to steer women facing an unwanted pregnancy away from choosing an abortion. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson, File)

Women's Health Center of West Virginia Executive Director Katie Quinonez speaks to a crowd at a vigil outside the Robert C. Byrd federal Courthouse in Charleston, W.Va., on Friday, June 24, 2022. The Women's Health Center, West Virginia's only abortion clinic, had to suspend abortion services after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision because of a state law dating back to the 1800s that makes abortion care a felony. (AP Photo/Leah M. Willingham)

A sign in the parking lot of West Virginia's only abortion clinic, Women's Health Center of West Virginia, cautions patients about an anti-abortion center located next door on Friday June 17, 2022, in Charleston, W.Va. The abortion clinic put up a row of trees in their parking lot blocking the view of Woman's Choice Pregnancy Resource Center, which has been located next to the abortion clinic for years. (AP Photo/Leah M. Willingham)

A sign advertises free pregnancy tests and abortion information outside the Woman's Choice Pregnancy Resource Center in Charleston, W.Va., on Friday June 17, 2022. The anti-abortion center is located next to Women's Health Center of West Virginia, seen in background left, the only abortion provider in the state. (AP Photo/Leah M. Willingham)

Anti-abortion centers to grow, wield more influence post-Roe