Carter Sherman

Well, no.

Basically what the Supreme Court did is they just punted.

They just kicked the can down the road.

And presumably they might want to avoid having this argument in open court until after the midterms.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I think a lot about this woman I spoke to in the summer of 2021.

I was working on a story then called The Last Summer of Roe v. Wade.

And I asked her why she wasn't worried about the erosion of abortion rights.

And she said, quote, we're two countries and that's happening more in the other one.

Right.

We now live in a country where about a dozen states ban virtually all abortions.

And for the people who live in those states, oftentimes their only way to end their pregnancies to get an abortion is to get mifepristone through the mail.

To that end, I recently spoke with someone who is on the front lines of this issue.

Her name is Dr. Angel Foster, and she is an abortion provider who mails abortion pills to people throughout the country, including people who live in states with abortion bans.

I spoke to her about what the last few weeks have been like for her and the women her practice treats.

But the thing hanging over our entire conversation is that I think the recent Supreme Court case indicates that the anti-abortion movement already has the tool that it needs to ban abortion.

And when I say ban abortion, I don't just mean abortion through the mail.

I don't just mean Miffy Pristone.