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‘Heightened alert’: Abortion providers brace for ruling

FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2015 file photo, a sign in support of Planned Parenthood is placed nearby as police investigators gather evidence near the scene of a shooting at the clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo. Harassment and violence have become common outside abortion clinics over the decades since the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion. Now providers and some in law enforcement worry what will come next. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) FILE - Law enforcement agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms search the ground outside the New Woman All Women Health Care clinic in Birmingham, Ala., on Jan. 29, 1998. A bomb exploded outside the clinic early Thursday, killing an off-duty Birmingham police officer and a clinic nurse. Harassment and violence have become common outside abortion clinics over the decades since the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion. Now providers and some in law enforcement worry what will come next. (AP Photo/Caroline Baird) FILE - Janet FitzGerald holds a sign during a candlelight vigil for Dr. George Tiller at a park in Lawrence, Kan., on May 31, 2009. Tiller, one of the nation's few providers of late-term abortions despite decades of protests and attacks, was shot and killed during Sunday church serves. Harassment and violence have become common outside abortion clinics over the decades since the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion. Now providers and some in law enforcement worry what will come next. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) FILE - Paul King cleans up broken glass after an early morning firebombing at the CompassCare facility, an anti-abortion center in Amherst, N.Y., on June 7, 2022. Harassment and violence have become common outside abortion clinics over the decades since the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion. Abortion opponents also have been targets of violence, and say they've also seen an increase in incidents since the draft opinion leaked, though the FBI in a 2020 memo described the incidents as historically “rare.” (Mark Mulville/The Buffalo News via AP, File) Amanda Kifferly, Vice President for Abortion Access at The Women's Centers poses for a photograph in Cherry Hill, N.J., Wednesday, June 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Amanda Kifferly, Vice President for Abortion Access at The Women's Centers speaks with a security guard at their location in Cherry Hill, N.J., Wednesday, June 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Amanda Kifferly, Vice President for Abortion Access at The Women's Centers poses for a photograph in Cherry Hill, N.J., Wednesday, June 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
‘Heightened alert’: Abortion providers brace for ruling