Mylissa Farmer never cared for politics. But after having to drive across three states, trying to get an abortion to save her life, she’s come to D.C. to fight.
Mylissa Farmer, 43, came from Missouri to speak outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday as justices heard arguments about abortion rights in emergency medical care. Away from the crowd, the dueling speakers, the yelling, the chants and a five-piece brass band that underscored the chaotic scene with a steady beat, Mylissa Farmer finally exhaled in the shade of a red oak tree.
Farmer, unlike many of the activists, politicians, lobbyists and lawyers who take a grand stand in the nation’s capital, never wanted to come to Washington.“I’ve always believed that everyone has a right to their own decisions,” she said.Farmer’s reluctant visit to Washington is a call to the shoulder-shruggers of America to listen. To engage. To understand.
Meanwhile, a counterprotester in a hot pink dress and silver sandals said into a sound system cranked to compete with Farmer’s story that she was “sorry” for the pain of women denied abortion care. But those same doctors, overruled by the legal departments at their hospitals, told her she would have to leave her home state to get care. Missouri completely banned abortion in June of 2022, around the time Farmer got pregnant. And because a fetal heartbeat was still detected, the doctors in Missouri said they couldn’t take any emergency action.“It was surreal,” she told me. “The fear, the pain, the disbelief that we’re losing our daughter. I couldn’t believe that all of this was happening.
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