"Texas Abortion Provider Launches Program to ‘Shift’ Abortion Stigma: A Q&A With Amy Hagstrom Miller and Amanda Williams"

photo portraits of Amy Hagstrom Miller (white) and Amanda Williams (brown)

This group, Shift, is SOOOO cool. They bought a space that used to be an abortion clinic. One of the ways they use it now is to walk people through the process of an abortion, and see where it actually happens and with which pieces of equipment (that are all still in the space).

Staff members get up on to the table. They play a patient. So when a guy gets on the table and puts his feet in the stirrups, it’s profound. I turn on the suction machine so people can hear what it sounds like... 

And this is my whole life’s work of turning lemons into lemonade. I have, as it turns out, a bunch of suction machines I don’t know what to do with. So if they can become used for show and tell? Awesome. I have all these nitrous oxide mixers. Are we going to throw them away? Or I can use them. So that’s part of this space. It’s part of a reclaiming.

"Texas Abortion Provider Launches Program to ‘Shift’ Abortion Stigma: A Q&A With Amy Hagstrom Miller and Amanda Williams"

In cahoots,
~Sasha