Idaho’s abortion airlifts and the loneliness of the female voter
In the fire hose of news this past week, the airlifts are an image that needs more attention. “We are now living in two very different United States,” was how one Seattle-area health care provider summed up the dystopian situation. When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that Idaho hospitals could resume providing emergency abortion care to ill pregnant women, but only temporarily, the story also emerged about how strained that care had become. Since January, emergency services have been airlifting women, often hemorrhaging or in sepsis, out of...