| As shocking as this situation is, it should be entirely unsurprising: Mary wrote earlier this year that Texas had failed to create a clear standard for medical exceptions to its abortion ban, and this is the obvious result. As Joan Walsh reminds us this week, the case in Texas–and one in Ohio, where a woman is being prosecuted after having a miscarriage—is mounting proof that cruel men control women’s bodies in red states.
One heartening piece of news is that Americans are increasingly rejecting the inhumane regime we’re living under. When we last landed in your inboxes, Ohio voters had just approved a ballot initiative to protect abortion rights in the state’s constitution. How did “red” Ohio approve an abortion rights measure? Nation contributing writer Dani McClain’s latest print feature recounts how pro-choice groups found ways to beat rampant Republican misinformation and antidemocratic tactics and protect abortion access in Ohio.
There are more ballot initiatives seeking to restore abortion access headed for voters, including in Florida, Arizona, and Colorado. But thousands of people across the country are seeking abortions right now, before any of these initiatives can be voted on, let alone go into effect. Many Americans, our contributing writer Bryce Covert reports, are turning to abortion funds to close the gap between what they can afford and what an abortion procedure–and all the expenses associated with getting to one—cost. Post-Dobbs, more people are traveling farther for later, costlier abortions.
This holiday season, I know this community will remember that even as abortion rights are winning at the polls, right now, for thousands of people, abortion is harder than ever to access. “People need access now,” McKenna Kelley, board member at the Tampa Bay Abortion Fund, told Bryce. “If people are concerned about abortion access and helping people get abortions, funds are doing that every single day, day in and day out.” In her annual holiday giving guide, Nation columnist Katha Pollitt has suggestions for abortion funds to support. And while you’re thinking about worthy causes, may I suggest The Nation? You know that we’re one of the only publications covering the reproductive justice movement, the political fight over the future of abortion access, and the on-the-ground reality facing people seeking abortions right now—and we always will.
Thank you for being part of our community! We’ll be back with you in the new year.
Yours in solidarity,
Emily Douglas
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