Republicans in Door County, which has backed all but two presidential winners in the last 50 years, are grappling with the political fallout of an unpopular ban.
“At some point, the law has to reflect what people want,” Kitchens said.Another survey out of Marquette University Law School — this one scientific and neutral — showed that, since thelikely to say they supported the most restrictive policies.
to reach a unifying stance. Kitchens is okay with exceptions for rape, incest and if the woman’s life is in jeopardy. Soucek, the county GOP chairwoman, isThe Democrats, however, seem amped up by a common cause —Goats sit on grass rooftops at Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant in Sister Bay, Wis., part of Door County, which lies on a peninsula north of Green Bay, Emma Cox described herself as a liberal who just voted. Beyond that … did selling RESIST buttons in her family’s fair-trade gift shop count as activism? Now the 35-year-old store manager co-leads an advocacy group in the northern Door County village of Sister Bay, population 1,180.decision, she and two friends organized a march down the main drag, protesting a right they’d been shocked to see rescinded. They collected about 100 email addresses that July afternoon, hoping to keep the momentum going.Perched on a stool in her family’s cottage-turned-shop — a maze of children’s books, rosemary candles and rainbow birdhouses, among other novelties — she outlined her strategy moving forward: Fight complacency with protests. Alert neighbors to key races. Inform people that a Republican president could push a federal abortion ban.A pro-choice button is for sale in Kindgoods, a fair-trade shop owned by Emma Cox's family in Sister Bay, Wis.Emma Cox at Kindgoods, her family’s fair-trade shop, where she sells pro-choice stickers and buttons in Sister Bay, Wis., in northern Door County, which has voted for the presidential winner in every election since 2000.Emma Cox, local abortion rights organizer in Sister Bay Down in Sturgeon Bay, one of the county’s two full-time OB/GYNs had weighed her own choices when the law changed. Beth Gaida, 42, moved here from Ocean Springs, Miss., three years ago, searching for fresh air and small-town charm. She loved that her three children under 12 could all go to school in the same building through senior year.fell, triggering Wisconsin’s pre-Civil War abortion law, and Gaida suddenly wrestled with a grim calculation: Before she could terminate a pregnancy, how close must a patient be to death?“I know what the proper medical treatment is,” Gaida said, “but if I can’t do that because of a state law — then what?” It didn’t make sense to her patients, she said — not the Democrats, not the Republicans. She’d thought about relocating to Minnesota, where abortion is allowed until fetal viability, which is typically around 22 to 24 weeks of pregnancy. But her hospital had been trying for more than a year to fill an OB/GYN vacancy. She and the one other doctor were already overwhelmed. If Gaida was gone and the other doctor was out sick, someone in Sister Bay, for instance, would have to drive two hours to reach the next-closest OB/GYN in Green Bay.Beth Gaida is one of Door County’s two full-time OB/GYNs. She considered moving to Minnesota after the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade triggered a pre-Civil War abortion ban in Wisconsin.Sturgeon Bay OB/GYN Beth Gaida, on her decision not to move after Roe fell. Performing abortions had been a rare part of Gaida’s role — her Catholic employer prohibited elective procedures — so she’d normally refer women to centers in Green Bay or Sheboygan. Still, she hadn’t had to worry about criminal charges when dealing with a pregnancy complication. Now she advises patients to drive to Illinois, where abortion is allowed until the fetus is viable — a costly trek, she said, that delays their care. One charity in town has offered to fly women to Chicago by private plane.a life-threatening condition, Gaida thought. The United States, she knew, has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, and the risk tended to be higher for women in rural areas like this one.Fourteen years ago, when she was an Air Force physician in Texas, she’d started bleeding out. She’d been 21 weeks pregnant with twins conceived through in vitro fertilization when her doctor acted quickly to induce labor —If the doctor would have hesitated, she said, she could have lost her uterus.Attendees partake of activities at the Door County Fair.Bill Krueger, 79, brought the wallet-size cards featuring illustrated fetuses to the Republican Party tent. As head of Door County’s Right to Life chapter, he often distributed literature meant to steer women away from abortion.On this August evening, the retired steelworker who’d moved here from Milwaukee sat in a plastic chair next to the four-foot elephant, chatting with folks who stopped by. One man said he couldn’t wait to vote for Donald Trump, addingphony. Another asked him what they were going to do about President Biden and Nancy Pelosi.He wasn’t sure about that, but he planned to support Trump, who took credit for the high court’s ability to
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