Wisconsin patients who were scheduled to receive abortions were turned away in the waiting room after Roe v. Wade was overturned

States without protections for abortion rights are being affected by the Supreme Court decision.

The clinics in Wisconsin stopped scheduling patients for next week in anticipation of the ruling, which was leaked in May.

When the news broke that the court had rendered an opinion, the president of the organization in Wisconsin said her clinics had patients waiting.

"Our team had to go out into the lobby and let those individuals know that they wouldn't be able to access healthcare that they needed."

Staff began working on getting appointments for those patients and arranging travel to other states where abortions are legal.

It was traumatic for the patients to not be able to access the care they had contemplated and decided they needed.

Any person other than the mother who ends the life of an unborn child with a Class H felony could face up to six years in prison.

State Republican legislators gaveled out in 13 seconds after Tony Evers convened a special legislative session to debate the law.