When abortion is officially banned in North Dakota, Red River Women’s Clinic will continue to provide care for patients — one mile across the state border in Minnesota. laurenarankin spoke with director and owner Tammi Kromenaker
Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photo: Reuters While the world was reeling from the reality that the U.S. Supreme Court had actually overturned Roe v. Wade last month, Tammi Kromenaker didn’t have time to process her emotions. She was focused on something else: How much time do I have?
During that early conversation, Kromenaker was anxious to have the closing papers signed so she could start on the dozens of other items on her to-do list. I scrambled to get them all down as she flew through them: getting the clinic licensed in Minnesota; finding a new lab director who is eligible to work in Minnesota; changing the clinic’s address on every letter, envelope, and web listing; the list went on.The HVAC? Probably about $150,000. Security cameras? $16,000.
Inside, there’s a warm, plant-filled waiting area where patients sit before meeting with a staff member who talks through their options, explains what to expect, and answers any questions. If this is their first appointment, they will have to wait another 24 hours before coming back to have an abortion, per North Dakota law.
Haeder, who is a licensed nurse in both North Dakota and Minnesota, is joining Kromenaker across the river. “Probably the easiest part of the transition,” she says, is not having to worry about getting licensed in another state. Same goes for the clinic’s “other nurses or doctors because we all both work in North Dakota and Minnesota, just because of how close we are just across the river.” It’s not uncommon to have nursing licenses in more than one state.
Typically, Lura stays by the door, his bodybuilder frame lending a sense of external security to the clinic. The rest of the volunteers fan out across the sidewalk, intercepting patients from protesters, shielding them from the phone cameras pointed at them by filming protesters, trying to keep them calm. The clinic escort team has a well-established system to support patients, and every volunteer knows precisely how they fit into it.
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