Awaiting court action on 6-week ban, Georgia abortion clinics turn patients away

Feminist Women’s Health Center Operations Manager and security head Tracii Wesley prepares to greet patients outside the clinic. Jess Mador/WABE
Feminist Women’s Health Center Operations Manager and security head Tracii Wesley prepares to greet patients outside the clinic. (Jess Mador/WABE)

The Georgia Supreme Court is preparing to take up a lawsuit challenging the state’s six-week abortion ban in March. After the law known as House Bill 481 took effect last fall, clinics that provide abortion have had to adjust to the restrictions. 

In this story, we spend time with some Atlanta abortion providers and patients caught at the center of Georgia’s battle over abortion access.

In her tiny office at Feminist Women’s Health Center in DeKalb County, Tracii Wesley sits at a computer.