

Wade - and upend the work of Choices and many other clinics. If the leaked opinion was legitimate, which Pepper believed it was, it would overturn the 50-year precedent set by Roe v.

“We knew it was going to happen, but seeing those words in black and white shattered any little bit of hope that maybe we had gotten it wrong.” “I remember kneeling down and feeling like I’d been gut punched,” Pepper said. The air was warm and humid, the sun had just set, and Pepper was staring at Cinderella’s Castle when her phone erupted with messages and alerts.

She had traveled to Orlando to give a presentation at a conference and visited Disney World that evening to watch the fireworks. Pepper is president and CEO of the Choices Center for Reproductive Health, a reproductive health clinic in Memphis, Tennessee, that began providing abortion care in 1974. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Jennifer Pepper was standing on Main Street in Disney World. O n at 8:32 p.m., when Politico published a leaked draft of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v.
