It's just - I think that's how I get rid of that or I would absolutely be crazier than I already am. This is wrong on so many different levels.

Derzis is furious, so she's been opening clinics in strategic places to counteract the new laws.ĭERZIS: It's just wrong. It's 1 of 14 states that now criminalize abortions. WESTWOOD: Roughly three-quarters of the Las Cruces clinic's patients come from Texas. Derzis says her clinics should feel warm, homey, like an oasis.ĭERZIS: And that's what someone needs when they've - no matter if they came around the block or they drove a thousand miles, they need to feel like somebody cares. WESTWOOD: Pink House West is also colorful, with rooms painted bright fuchsia and green, and the pinks and yellows that evoke the desert Southwest. And it is successful, Successful for some women anyway. They call it Pink House West, and it's now helping women who travel from El Paso and other parts of Texas.ĭIANE DERZIS: As long as we're continuing to fight for this, there's the chance of success. Instead, a few staff members uprooted and moved to New Mexico, where they opened a new clinic in Las Cruces, 24 miles from the Texas border. Soon after the Supreme Court decision, the pink house shut down, but it didn't die. The outside was painted a garish, bright shade of pink, and so everybody just called it the Pink House. ROSEMARY WESTWOOD, BYLINE: Diane Derzis' clinic in Mississippi had been an iconic symbol for abortion supporters for years. Rosemary Westwood at member station WWNO reports. She is opening new clinics in other states. Jackson Women's Health Organization closed after that decision, but its owner is not backing down. Wade was actually centered on one specific clinic in Mississippi. The Supreme Court case overturning Roe v.

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