Sept. 12, 2021
By Carole Joffe and Jody Steinauer

Join us, if you will, in a thought experiment. It’s the
fall of 2022. Dr. H., an obstetrician-gynecologist, practices in a red state.
Much has changed in the reproductive rights landscape by then: In the spring,
her state rushed to pass a law similar to the notorious 2021 Texas law that
bans a large majority of abortions and incentivizes private citizens to sue
anyone helping someone get an abortion. The Supreme Court also overturned Roe
v. Wade in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case that year,
leaving the issue of abortion regulation to individual states; a few years
before, Dr. H.’s state passed a trigger ban that automatically banned the few
abortions that were still legal in the state when Roe fell. In her state, the
law now allows an abortion only when a pregnancy threatens the life of a
pregnant person.

Continued: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/12/opinion/abortion-texas-roe.html