[Content Note: War on agency.]
The Guttmacher Institute has just published its midyear reproductive health and rights report, and the trend of eroding access to abortion in state legislatures continues at an alarming pace: "So far this year, states have enacted 51 new abortion restrictions; this brings the number of restrictions enacted since 2010 to 282."
Two-hundred and eighty-two restrictions on abortion in the last five years.
Fifty-one of them in just the first half of this year alone.
I certainly hope that we will hear the word "abortion" from the Democratic candidates many times over the next year and a half. This is no longer, and has not been for quite some time, a topic on which tepid approaches and coded language are sufficient.
We need a national conversation on the erosion of abortion rights, and we need one that is honest and straightforward. And angry.
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