Lorie Schaull <\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\nMacalester Today, Fall 2016<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”1st quarter of story” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” header_font=”Crimson Text||||”] F<\/span>ew people have studied the optics of abortion as closely as Amy Hagstrom Miller \u201989, which is why she put on a bright purple suit the day her case went to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\u201cWhen I\u2019ve shown up to testify at the Texas legislature wearing pearls, people will do double-takes because I\u2019m not what they\u2019re expecting,\u201d says Hagstrom Miller, the founder and CEO of Whole Woman\u2019s Health, a national network of independent clinics in Texas, Minnesota, and three other states. With her friendly laugh, fringed bob, and what Mother Jone<\/em>s recently described as her \u201cenergized Patricia Arquette\u201d demeanor, she says, \u201cI want to shift the image associated with being an abortion provider.\u201d<\/p>\nThe lead plaintiff in Whole Woman\u2019s Health vs. Hellerstedt<\/em>, Hag-strom Miller and the p<\/em>ro<\/em> bono <\/em>legal team from the D.C.\u2013based Center for Reproductive Rights arrived at the nation\u2019s highest court on a Wednesday morning last March to challenge HB2, a 2013 Texas law mandating that physicians providing abortion services have admitting privileges at local hospitals, while requiring abortion clinics to meet the hospital-level standards of an ambulatory surgical center.<\/p>\nHB2 is what critics call a \u201cTRAP\u201d law\u2014t<\/em>ar<\/em>g<\/em>e<\/em>t<\/em>e<\/em>d<\/em> r<\/em>e<\/em>g<\/em>u<\/em>l<\/em>a<\/em>t<\/em>io<\/em>n<\/em> o<\/em>f<\/em> a<\/em>b<\/em>o<\/em>r<\/em>t<\/em>ion providers<\/em>\u2014one of 288 such laws passed by state legislatures since 2010. During the three years it took for W<\/em>h<\/em>o<\/em>l<\/em>e<\/em> W<\/em>om<\/em>a<\/em>n<\/em>\u2019<\/em>s<\/em> H<\/em>e<\/em>a<\/em>l<\/em>t<\/em>h<\/em> v<\/em>s<\/em>.<\/em> H<\/em>el<\/em>l<\/em>e<\/em>r<\/em>s<\/em>t<\/em>e<\/em>d<\/em>t<\/em> to reach the highest court, more than half of that state\u2019s abortion providers had closed their doors\u2014including two clinics owned by Whole Woman\u2019s Health.<\/p>\n\u201cI knew what was happening in Texas wasn\u2019t going to stay in Texas,\u201d Hagstrom Miller says. Though her team had won a temporary injunction against the most onerous provisions of HB2, she says, taking her place in the public gallery that morning, \u201cI really had to detach myself from the outcome of winning.\u201d<\/p>\n
But that began to change very soon in the oral arguments, when Justice Elena Kagan wondered why a law intended to raise the standard of care for women had effectively prevented them from accessing their legal right to abortion services: \u201cI<\/em>t<\/em>\u2019<\/em>s<\/em> a<\/em>l<\/em>m<\/em>o<\/em>s<\/em>t<\/em> li<\/em>k<\/em>e<\/em> t<\/em>h<\/em>e<\/em> p<\/em>e<\/em>r<\/em>f<\/em>e<\/em>c<\/em>t<\/em> c<\/em>o<\/em>n<\/em>– <\/em>t<\/em>r<\/em>o<\/em>l<\/em>l<\/em>e<\/em>d<\/em> e<\/em>x<\/em>p<\/em>e<\/em>r<\/em>i<\/em>m<\/em>e<\/em>n<\/em>t<\/em> a<\/em>s<\/em> t<\/em>o<\/em> t<\/em>h<\/em>e<\/em> e<\/em>ff<\/em>e<\/em>c<\/em>t<\/em> o<\/em>f<\/em> t<\/em>h<\/em>e<\/em> l<\/em>a<\/em>w<\/em> i<\/em>s<\/em>n<\/em>\u2019<\/em>t<\/em> i<\/em>t<\/em>?<\/em> I<\/em>t<\/em>\u2019<\/em>s<\/em> li<\/em>k<\/em>e<\/em> y<\/em>o<\/em>u<\/em> p<\/em>u<\/em>t<\/em> t<\/em>h<\/em>e <\/em>law into effect, 12 clinics closed. You take the law out of effect, they reopen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nSoon after, Justice Stephen Breyer asked the Texas solicitor if he could point to a single woman who\u2019d benefited from new restrictions\u2014requirements that aren\u2019t the rule for other routine health procedures. The Texas solicitor said no.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was when I realized we might win,\u201d Hagstrom Miller remembers. \u201cI knew our case chapter and verse, but to hear these brilliant legal minds hold people\u2019s feet to the fire was just incredible.\u201d As she left the chamber that day with Nancy Northrup, president\u00a0 and\u00a0 CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, nearly 3,000 supporters\u2014 many also dressed in purple\u2014cheered from below. \u201cWe were stepping into this moment that was profound and so much bigger than me,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd my other thought was, \u2018Oh my god, I have to walk down all of these steps without falling.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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I found unplanned pregnancy as a way to engage around a huge number of issues that really center around the status of\u00a0 women and human rights in our culture. Women end up grappling with some really big issues that are sort of a barometer for our society\u2014identity, stigma, self-esteem, sexuality, family, spirituality, religion.<\/p>\n
–Amy Hagstrom Miller<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_slide][\/et_pb_fullwidth_slider][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off”][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”2nd part” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] S<\/span>eeing his wife take center stage in a history-making women\u2019s rights case has been thrilling, challenging, and \u201calso just super tiring,\u201d admits Karl<\/strong> Hagstrom<\/strong> Miller \u201990<\/strong>, an associate professor at the University of Virginia\u2019s McIntire Department of Music. \u201cWe\u2019ve learned so much about how political organizing works, how our legal system works, that we can\u2019t see the world in the same way as we did before,\u201d he says. \u201cBeing in the middle of such a momentous series of events\u2014 it\u2019s like we\u2019ve received a graduate degree in the inner workings of politics and the law.\u201d<\/p>\nOver the past three years, Hagstrom Miller handed over more than 10,000 emails and seven years of clinic documents, laying bare the business model of independent community clinics like hers, which provide nearly 80 percent of abortion procedures in this country. The Whole Woman\u2019s Health staff chose to be equally transparent with the media, allowing documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter to follow pa- tients and providers on the front lines of the Texas fight in Trapped<\/em>, a film that debuted at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking. Hagstrom Miller herself agreed to hundreds of interview requests from outlets as varied as Rolling Stone <\/em>and Refinery<\/em> 29<\/em>, even changing out of her Halloween costume just before trick-or-treating with Karl and their two boys, then 8 and 10, to talk live with MSNBC\u2019s Rachel Maddow.<\/p>\nYet as her profile rose, and supporters began mobilizing national support behind her Supreme Court case, Hagstrom Miller had to make hard decisions about which battles she couldn\u2019t win. Forced to close clinics in Austin and Beaumont, laying off loyal staff and physicians, Hagstrom Miller took on so much debt during her legal fight that one of her sons offered her the $5 he\u2019d saved just to keep her clinics open. \u201cOur boys have had an education in the past three years about sacrifice, about political engagement, and about doing the right thing that I think is going to be foundational for them,\u201d says Karl Hagstrom Miller. \u201cBut there was never a time when she said this is too much, I\u2019m going to let someone else do this. That\u2019s just not in her vocabulary.\u201d<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/U_iGraZbkH8″ \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”3rd section” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] A<\/span>my and Karl Hagstrom Miller met at Macalester, on a J-term trip to Nicaragua, and married in 1992. Karl (whose parents, Barbara Lindquist Miller \u201960 and Kent Miller \u201961, also met at Macalester) came to Macalester as a mid-year transfer from Boston\u2019s Berklee College of Music to study history and music. Amy grew up in nearby Stillwater, the youngest of five siblings raised in \u201cone of those Scandinavian peace- and-justice Christian families.\u201d A religious studies major, she widened her focus to include international studies and women\u2019s studies after a formative study abroad experience in India.<\/p>\n\u201cLiving in a culture where women don\u2019t have any status was transformational for me,\u201d says Amy, a competitive swimmer and Nordic skier who credits Title IX for \u201csaving me from the self-esteem spiral I might have experienced as a young person.\u201d Returning to campus her senior year, she and other Women\u2019s Collective members organized Macalester students to join the 1989 National Organization of Women-led abortion rights march on Washington with money raised from \u201cfeminist bake sales\u201d and performances by Karl\u2019s band, Toe Jam.<\/p>\n
At the time, abortion providers were embattled by a surge of clinic protests and escalating violence, a trend that Amy found deeply trou- bling. \u201cThe Jesus that I was taught about would be holding the hands of women inside the clinic,\u201d she says. \u201cHe wouldn\u2019t be screaming at them.\u201d So after graduating with the S.W. Hunter Prize for commitment to peace and justice, she walked into the Planned Parenthood in
\nSt. Paul\u2019s Highland Park and asked for a job.<\/p>\n
She learned the work from the ground up, answering phones, counseling patients, and eventually following a physician provider into private practice, work she continued when the couple moved to New York, where Karl attended graduate school at New York University. \u201cI found unplanned pregnancy as a way to engage around a huge number of issues that really center on the status of women and human rights in our culture,\u201d she says. \u201cWomen end up grappling with some really big issues that are sort of a barometer for our society\u2014 identity, stigma, self-esteem, sexuality, family, spirituality, religion.\u201d Serving patients in Minnesota, she found that an open-ended question like \u201cHow did you come to find yourself here today?\u201d could elicit tears and self-recrimination from patients who were taught that \u201cgood women\u201d don\u2019t seek abortions. But in New York City, Amy found that the multi-cultural climate and long history of abortion access in the state made for a different counseling experience. \u201cI remember asking a patient in the Bronx, \u2018How did you come to find yourself here?\u2019 and she\u2019s like, \u2018I took the A train.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
That experience taught her an important lesson, she says: \u201cStigma is manufactured.\u201d<\/p>\n
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That matter-of-fact messaging has sometimes unsettled others in the pro-choice movement. \u201cThere\u2019s a tradition of people using a lot of euphemisms about family planning or reproductive health care to downplay the importance of abortion, but that\u2019s not something I\u2019ve ever wanted to do,\u201d Hagstrom Miller says. \u201cI don\u2019t scream and yell, but I\u2019m not going to further stigmatize abortion in the way I talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Texas lawmakers began passing the state\u2019s first round of TRAP laws in the early 2000s, Hagstrom Miller became a frequent presence at the Texas State Capitol, enduring hostility and harassment from anti-abortion groups and hand-wringing from pro-choice lobbyists who wanted to review her talking points. \u201cThey worried I wasn\u2019t strategic or I\u2019d be too abortion-forward, so coming to the Capitol was not a friendly or comfortable place,\u201d she says. \u201cI was getting it from both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n
But that began to change in the legislative session of 2013, as Texas lawmakers geared up to pass HB2. \u201cWe knew it was going to be the worst session yet,\u201d she says, but in a state with historically low voter turnout, \u201cI wanted to find a way to make activism super easy for people.\u201d Whole Woman\u2019s Health and its allies printed up a few hundred bright orange T-shirts emblazoned with \u201cMy Family Values Women\u201d and \u201cI Stand with Texas Women.\u201d The T-shirts turned into a powerful visual later in the session when more than 700 Texans lined up to testify about the proposed legislation, a \u201cpeople\u2019s filibuster\u201d that preceded Sen. Wendy Davis\u2019s historic stand against the bill.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one was telling anyone how to do it, or what to say, but person after person stood up and told their own abortion story or told the story about why abortion mattered to someone they loved,\u201d Hagstrom Miller says. \u201cSo at the same time the worst law in the country was going to be passed\u2014and you knew it was\u2014you watched the stigma of abortion just melting off people. It was a huge victory in this long arc of culture change.\u201d<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”5th text box” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] T<\/span>he People\u2019s Filibuster was a pivotal moment in the fight against TRAP laws, but the most important victory came on June 27, 2016, when the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in favor of Whole Woman\u2019s Health, overturning the state\u2019s burdensome abortion restrictions. That day, Hagstrom Miller chose a white pantsuit and a purple blouse to make her public remarks about standing on \u201cthe right side of history.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cAfter such a tough year, with the clinic shooting in Colorado, that decision was really a source of joy,\u201d says Curtiss Hannum \u201997, one of several Mac alumni in the reproductive justice movement who have paid close attention to the case. The vice president of programming and center affairs at The Women\u2019s Centers, a group of independent East Coast abortion care providers, Hannum says the Supreme Court ruling \u201creally affirmed all that we know to be true, which is that these regulations are about politics and not about patient care.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s been a campaign of terror against people having or providing abortions,\u201d says Dr. Jill Meadows \u201991, Medical Director of Iowa\u2019s Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and a board member of the national nonprofit Physicians for Reproductive Health. The 45 amicus briefs filed in support of Whole Woman\u2019s Health, including hundreds of first-person stories from women who have sought abortions, have had a powerful effect, says Meadows. \u201cAll these affidavits from women talking about their experiences made clear that abortion is normal, and I think it can help shift the cultural needle.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Whole Woman\u2019s Health ruling has already forced 10 states to drop similar TRAP legislation, including Wisconsin, where Doug Laube \u201966, retired chair of the University of Wisconsin\u2019s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, had been expecting to testify. \u201cIt\u2019s been quite a turning point,\u201d says Laube. \u201cAnd it\u2019s already affected us favorably.\u201d Attorney Katherine Barrett Wiik \u201900, board chair of Minneapolis-based ProChoice Resources, says, \u201cI think it is and will be a tremendously impactful legal decision, but building back the access that was lost is going to take a lot of time and hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the landscape that Hagstrom Miller is confronting today, as Whole Woman\u2019s Health and its allies attempt to rebuild the health care access that Texas women lost during HB2. According to the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, an estimated 100,000 to 240,000 Texas women between the ages of 18 and 49 have tried to end a pregnancy by themselves. Another report, released in the September 2016 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology, found that the rate of women who died from complications related to pregnancy in Texas doubled from 2010 to 2014, the worst maternal mortality rate of any state, unmatched in the rest of the developed world.<\/p>\n
Hagstrom Miller has seen these trends firsthand, recalling the day she had to close her clinic in McAllen, Texas, because of HB2 restrictions. \u201cThere was a woman there who told my vice president, \u2018I can\u2019t travel to San Antonio. I\u2019m a working mom, I have three children, two jobs, so I\u2019m going to tell you what\u2019s in my medicine cabinet and what\u2019s under my sink, and can you tell me how to do my own abortion?\u2019 We have many stories like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople say your case is going to be talked about it in history books\u2014but that\u2019s too abstract,\u201d she says. \u201cThis win came at a real cost.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now mentioned in the same breath with other kick-ass Texas women such as Molly Ivins and Ann Richards, Hagstrom Miller has been encouraged to run for political office or bring her voice to another national platform. But for now, she\u2019s concentrating on projects closer to home: supporting staff to take vacation time, building a new fence at the Fort Worth clinic, and shoring up Shift, an Austin nonprofit she launched to start a national conversation about abortion stigma. \u201cFiguring out what\u2019s next is actually a pretty important decision,\u201d Hagstrom Miller says, but she doesn\u2019t see herself moving too far away from providing direct care to women. \u201cTo have my foot in the door of this meaningful interaction…this is what I\u2019m called to do.”<\/p>\n
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\u201cPeople say your case is going to be talked about it in history books\u2014but that\u2019s too abstract. This win came at a real cost.\u201d<\/p>\n
–Amy Hagstrom Miller<\/p>\n
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The lead plaintiff in the most critical abortion rights case in a generation, Amy Hagstrom Miller brought her case all the way to the Supreme Court. And won.
\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> By Laura Billings Coleman | images: Lorie Schaull Macalester Today, Fall 2016 F<\/span>ew people have studied the optics of abortion as closely as Amy Hagstrom Miller […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[144,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.laurabillingscoleman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/AHM-LoriSchaull.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurabillingscoleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurabillingscoleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurabillingscoleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurabillingscoleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurabillingscoleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurabillingscoleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27618,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurabillingscoleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27617\/revisions\/27618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurabillingscoleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurabillingscoleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurabillingscoleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurabillingscoleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}