Repro-Rights Advocates Focused on Abortion and Not Pregnancy. That Was a Mistake. Mother Jones [Video]

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As the Supreme Court prepares for arguments in a wide-ranging case over the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone, it’s hard to fathom what might happen if the abortion pill, which now accounts for 63 percent of abortions in the US, becomes largely unavailable. But then again, for a very long time, it was hard for the vast majority of Americans to believe that Roe v. Wade might be overturned. Or for all but the most apocalyptic-minded to imagine that ultra-right justices in Alabama, inspired by Christian Nationalism, might someday declare frozen embryos created in a fertility clinic to be children, literal persons, under the law.

Civil rights lawyer and reproductive justice pioneer Lynn Paltrowis one of the rare exceptions. “Maybe there’s something about being Jewish, and brought up on the knowledge of the Holocaust, that’s sensitized me to the …