In the minutes and hours after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022, the abortion clinic at the center of the case continued to see patients even as clinic volunteers dealt with swarms of media and protestors. 

The Jackson Women’s Health Organization, also known as the Pink House, will continue to provide abortions before the 15-week cutoff until July 7, 2022, at which point the state’s 2007 Roe v. Wade trigger law will is set to become effective, banning nearly all abortions at all stages. The clinic is suing the State in attempt to block the law, however.

The photos in this gallery show the events that unfolded outside the Pink House on the day the Dobbs decision came down.

An abortion protester confronts a clinic escort in the street
Derenda Hancock, a Pink House Defender, confronts anti-abortion rights protester Coleman Boyd on Friday, June 24, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. Photo by Lukas Flippo
Media records a speaking women in a colorful clinic escort vest
Kim Gibson, a Pink House Defender, answers questions from local and national media following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe V Wade on Friday, June 24, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. Photo by Lukas Flippo
Abortion protest signs surround the entrance to the Jackson Women's Health Clinic
Anti-abortion rights protestors parked their vehicles and propped signs against them outside the Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Friday, June 24, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. Photo by Lukas Flippo
Two people in colorful clinic escort vests stand in the clinic driveway
Derenda Hancock, a Pink House Defender, rests her arm on a speaker that plays music to combat the speakers of anti-abortion rights protesters Friday, June 24, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. Photo by Lukas Flippo
Two people in colorful clinic escort vests stand in the clinic driveway
Clinic Escort Kim Gibson holds a speaker blasting the song, “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty outside the Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022. Photo by Lukas Flippo
An abortion protestor speaks with arm raised in front of protestor signs
Anti-abortion rights protester Coleman Boyd points a Bible at the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Mississippi’s now-closed single abortion clinic, also known as the Pink House. He was preaching against abortion rights to any potential patients, clinic escorts, protesters, reporters and anyone else who happened by in the Fondren community of Jackson on June 24, 2022. Photo by Lukas Flippo
Abortion protesters stand with giant photoshopped signs beside a clinic escort
A Jackson Women’s Health Organization clinic escort turns away from a group of anti-abortion rights protesters Friday, June 24, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. Photo by Lukas Flippo
Women stand on a grassy hill holding signs that stay "Abortion is still legal"
Jackson Women’s Health Organization clinic escorts, also known as Pink House Defenders, hold signs toward the road reading that the clinic is still open and offering abortion services Friday, June 24, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. Photo by Lukas Flippo
A sheriff stands in the road dispersing abortion protesters out of the road
Hinds County Deputy Sheriff Zachary Moore tells anti-abortion rights protestors they cannot block the road outside the Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Friday, June 24, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. Photo by Lukas Flippo
Back view of clinic escorts holding up signs saying that the clinic is open
Jackson Women’s Health Organization clinic escorts, also known as Pink House Defenders, wave signs toward the road reading that they are still open and offering abortion services Friday, June 24, 2022, in Jackson, MIss. Photo by Lukas Flippo.
"This Supreme Court Takes Rights Away" sign held aloft in front of the blue Fondren building
A pro-abortion rights protestor waves a sign Friday, June 24, 2022, outside the Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Jackson, Miss. Photo by Lukas Flippo
A protestor with a megaphone stands outside of a pink building
Anti-abortion rights protester Doug Lane shouts into a megaphone Friday, June 24, 2022, in front of a closed gate at the Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Jackson, Miss. Photo by Lukas Flippo
A man in black with a white priest's collar and a black cap that says Unborn Lives Matter
E.C. Smith, an anti-abortion rights protester, stands outside the Jackson Women’s Health Organization holding a sign that reads “Killing Babies Today” on Friday, June 24, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. Photo by Lukas Flippo
People in colorful clinic escort vests guard the driveway entrance to the clinic
Clinic escort Kim Gibson holds a speaker at the entrance to the Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022. Photo by Lukas Flippo
Several people in colorful clinic escort vests gather outside
The Pink House Defenders, who volunteer to escort patients of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, prepare for a press conference following the Supreme’s Court Decision to reverse Roe v. Wade on Friday June 24, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. Photo by Lukas Flippo
Clinic escort tries to get people to stop blocking the road
Kim Gibson, a Pink House Defender, confronts an anti-abortion rights protestor for blocking the road beside the Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Friday, June 24, 2022, in Jackson, Miss. Photo by Lukas Flippo

Lukas Flippo is a multimedia intern for the Mississippi Free Press for the summer of 2022 and an undergraduate student at Yale University from rural Mississippi. Previously, he was a Photo Editor for the Yale Daily News, Pulliam Fellow at the Indianapolis Star and Visuals Intern at the Sun Herald.