A pro-choice activist who was on her way home from a conference on reproductive health care access earlier this week missed her flight after American Airlines employees prevented her from boarding on the grounds that her T-Shirt could have been seen as offensive to other passengers.

Yesterday, we reported on 28 D.C. women whose scheduled abortion procedures at a local clinic were in danger of being unexpectedly cancelled after D.C. Medicaid coverage of such procedures suddenly expired. Amanda Hess follows up today with the news that the fundraising effort spearheaded by the DC Abortion Fund — which garnered support from Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington and an fund-match from the Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund — enabled all 28 women to make their appointments.

The compromise reached last week by President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner to reinstate a ban on D.C.’s ability to fund abortions for low-income women has, so far, been enveloped inside a bubble of political rhetoric. But the very real effects of the ban have started to take hold: 28 women who were scheduled for abortion procedures in the District today were informed by a local clinic last night that, as of midnight, they would be unable to rely on D.C. Medicaid to pay for those procedures.