After Roe v. Wade fell, this father-daughter duo left Texas to go on providing abortions

Dr. Alan Braid, 78, hugs his daughter Andrea Gallegos, 40, goodbye after the opening of Alamo Women's Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, U.S., November 4, 2022. On June 24, 2022, a year ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and stripped away a nationwide right to abortion. Dozens of clinics closed, forcing patients to travel thousands of miles to end pregnancies. These included clinics of Alan Braid and his daughter Andrea Gallegos in San Antonio, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Braid, an abortion provider since 1972, and Gallegos, manager of their clinics, decided to uproot their families in Texas to open the clinics in New Mexico and Illinois, two states where abortion remains legal. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein SEARCH "HOCKSTEIN ABORTION FAMILY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - The day Alan Braid opened his abortion clinic for business in Albuquerque, New Mexico, last August, he looked out at a waiting room full of patients fresh off trips from Texas, some with suitcases in tow.

Several months later, Dr. Braid's daughter Andrea Gallegos drew a similar crowd to the opening of their abortion clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, with patients arriving from far-flung states to end pregnancies.