TUSCALOOSA, Ala. At 67, Gloria Gray is ready for retirement. Shes been working out of a squat brown brick building in an office park near the University of Alabama for the last 24 years, and while she finds her work immensely rewarding, shes hoping to sell her small business.

But shes having a hard time finding a buyer because her business is an abortion clinic.

The shortage of abortion doctors in the United States has garnered a lot of attention, but the shortage of clinic owners who put up the capital to set up and maintain locations where those doctors can practice is also a major concern. Pro-choice organizations are scrambling to train more medical students to perform abortions, but the number of trained doctors doesnt matter if theres nowhere for them to practice.

Gray knows how risky it is to buy an abortion clinic. Since she opened the West Alabama Womens Center in 1994, its been subject to a series of violent attacks. Four years after the clinic opened, it burned to the ground, and Gray never found out who was responsible. Shes been mailed anthrax. Someone shot out the windows of a clinic doctors office in the middle of the night. In 2006, a man drove his car through the clinics front doors and into the waiting room. There was also the time the boyfriend of a patient called in a bomb threat to disrupt his partners abortion.

There have also been less violent attempts to sabotage Grays clinic for example, the establishment of Choices Pregnancy Clinic, an anti-choice crisis pregnancy center masquerading as an abortion clinic, right next door in 2014. And there are protesters outside her clinic daily, carrying signs with photos of fetuses on them and shouting, which annoys the nearby podiatry clinic and dentist office.

Grays clinic is an independent, for-profit business. Unlike her peers at Planned Parenthood , she goes without the financial and legal help that comes with being part of a high-profile national organization. And while abortion clinics all over the country have come under intense pressure from regulators, independent clinics have suffered more closures because they dont have the same resources behind them.