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Of strict new abortion laws

The Supreme Court just quietly handed a big victory to abortion opponents. The Iowa governor just signed the nation’s most extreme abortion ban into law. How Trump helped inspire a wave of strict new abortion laws. Trump is already the anti-abortion movement’s best president ever. Evangelicals have displaced Catholics as the anti-abortion movement’s base. What would a post–Roe v. Wade America look like? Haley Britzky on the states where abortion clinics are in short supply. Trump is expected to cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood. Katie Heany on what cutting federal funding for abortion providers really means.

Keith Ellison was right: “It’s a fact that inequality is a disaster for women’s health. And given that the Republican agenda only serves to perpetuate inequality even further, it’s far from out of line to say that when Republicans have power, more women die”.