Abortion access has once again been called into question, jeopardizing the health of millions of American women in the process and creating chaos.

This is the reality of what the 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization did to our ability to access health care.

On May 1, a federal appeals court in Louisiana temporarily halted the prescription of the abortifacient mifepristone via telehealth, effectively kneecapping abortion services nationwide. Then, on May 4, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated mail-order abortion services for a week while the justices considered the issue.

This kind of confusion has been part of the goal all along.

Anti-abortion advocates wanted this issue to return to the states so that there would be a patchwork of care across the country, inevitably leading women to seek abortions in other states. Then, when they realized that this was the world they were creating, they began closing in on what they saw as a loophole.

It was never about returning abortion to the states. They want to control all of us, no matter where we live.

What the pro-life crowd seems to be incapable of understanding, however, is that they were never going to rid the country of abortion. People have been terminating pregnancies for generations, regardless of whether the practice is........

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