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By Jonathon Van Maren, First Things, February 13, 2025
The United States has been deeply divided on abortion for decades, but since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, those divides have deepened as differing legal regimes emerge across the nation. In some states, such as California and New York, destroying an unborn person in the womb is a fiercely defended “human right.” In others, such as Alabama and Mississippi, abortion is illegal with limited exceptions on the explicit grounds of unborn human rights. Not since chattel slavery have Americans been so at odds on an issue of fundamental personhood.
In response to this patchwork legal regime, abortion activists have created a vast underground network to ship abortifacient drugs into states with pro-life laws, a perverse mirror and moral opposite of the life-giving Underground Railroad. Activists refer to areas with pro-life laws, without irony, as “abortion deserts,” and ignore the widely documented risks of the abortion pill. Indeed, in a spectacular act of gaslighting, abortion activists even insist that women who died from complications of the abortion pill—such as Amber Thurman in Georgia—were killed by a lack of access to abortion. Clashes between these legal regimes are inevitable. …
