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  But, with virtually every doctor’s appointment she attended, she remembers encountering hesitancy and fear. Doctors found themselves stopping midsentence, careful to avoid the word “abortion,” she recalled. It wasn’t until a doctor tore his gloves off, sourly threw them away, and spoke his mind that Miller confirmed what she had feared all along. “I can’t help you,” the doctor told her. “You need to leave the state.” Her family had the money to do so, and, within a week, a clinic in Colorado, a state where abortion is legal, administered what’s known as a pregnancy reduction. Miller joined Amanda Zurawski in suing the state of Texas; she delivered the remaining baby, a healthy son, two months ago.