I want you to imagine yourself at work. You’re at your computer tippy tapping away. You get an email that says this week’s all-hands meeting is cancelled. Hm. Maybe the organizer is sick. You carry on with your day. A few hours later, the all-hands meeting calendar series is cancelled. Well that’s weird. You move on. Over the next month, a few senior leadership members quietly leave. Then the CEO starts being vague in calls about the company’s earnings. Uhhhhh….something is up.
None of these things set off alarms on their own, but when you put it altogether, you see they’re telling a story: the company is probably in trouble.
This is how Republicans are attacking women’s rights; throughout a patchwork of seemingly unrelated state-based and tech efforts that appear unrelated, but once you see them side by side, you can’t unsee what they add up to. Let’s dive in.
There are three stories in the news right now that you’re probably not hearing about. That’s intentional because when you put them together, they reveal a coordinated, three-pronged Republican attack on abortion access. And it’s already underway.
1. Louisiana Wants to Block the Mail
Louisiana is currently in court trying to stop the mailing of mifepristone which is the pill used in the vast majority of medication abortions in the United States.
Medication abortion is now the most common way people end pregnancies in this country, and telehealth has been the game-changer that made it accessible across state lines, in rural areas, and for people who can’t take time off work to sit in a waiting room.
If Louisiana succeeds, they won’t just be restricting abortion in their state. They will have effectively created a national ban on telehealth abortion services. And that’s the goal.
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