Katrina Kimport, a research sociologist and associate professor in the department of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences at the University of California-San Francisco, has, over the past couple of years, been conducting the most comprehensive research on late-term abortion to date. People have certain assumptions about late-term abortion, she told me.

They imagine a woman spontaneously getting cold feet in her third trimester, or an indecisive dawdler who decides, on a whim, at twenty-seven weeks, that she's simply done. "But, in reality," Kimport told me, "these are people who were planning to continue the pregnancy and obtained a piece of vital information that made that change. Or they're people who just did not know that they were pregnant - people with other existing physical conditions, or people without typical symptoms - who then knew they didn't want to continue it, and then a series of obstacles pushed them over the line."

In the study that Kimport conducted with Diana Greene Foster, her colleague at U.C.S.F., women who sought late-term abortions were twelve weeks pregnant, on average, when they discovered the pregnancy; women who sought first-trimester abortions were five weeks along, on average.

"We expect people to know immediately when they're pregnant, and to know exactly how to handle it," Schalit said. "We don't take into account the possibility of ambivalence, that they're minors, or that they have to figure out how to take off work and get childcare, or that they might be in a coercive, unsupportive, or abusive relationship, or that they might not have the financial or logistical or bodily autonomy to access real choice at all."

Layer on top of that mean-spiritedness the MAGA Republican impulse to target, punish, and hurt its foes, and you could anticipate how this might go. Before Dobbs, it was easy for Trump et al. to use anti-abortion invective as a weapon. After Dobbs, the weaponization of abortion suddenly resulted in lots and lots of friendly fire. It wasn't just those women who were affected, it was all women. The line between us and them blurred. What were easy cheap shots became self-inflicted wounds.

The Democratic nominee for Arkansas' 3rd Congressional District found out Monday her pregnancy is not viable after four years of in vitro fertilization attempts -- possibly endangering her life under Arkansas law, she said in a phone interview Wednesday.

Candidate Caitlin Draper of Fayetteville asked her doctor if she can obtain an abortion in Arkansas if she needs one, she said. "She doesn't know," according to Draper.

"I can't grapple that my life is at risk because of extremism," Draper said. "Politicians do not need to be practicing medicine.

"Would you want politicians treating one of your loved ones for cancer?"

First, it added a consent provision requiring a physician to obtain the woman's consent before performing an abortion.[16] Second, it permitted physician-provided elective abortion services within the first 24-weeks of pregnancy or to preserve her life.[16] Third, it permitted a woman, when acting upon the advice of a duly licensed physician, to perform an "abortional act" on herself within the first 24-weeks of pregnancy or to preserve her life.[16]

As of May 14, 2019, the state prohibited abortions after the fetus was viable, generally some point between week 24 and 28.

In 2019, New York passed the Reproductive Health Act (RHA), which repealed a pre-Roe provision that banned third-trimester abortions except in cases where the continuation of the pregnancy endangered a pregnant woman's life.[26][27][28] The law said: "The legislature finds that comprehensive reproductive health care, including contraception and abortion, is a fundamental component of a woman's health, privacy, and equality."[28] The bill also allowed qualified health practitioners to perform abortions, not just licensed medical doctors.[28][29][30]

Indeed, for every dollar the Texas state government spends on public services for undocumented immigrants, new research indicates, the state collects $1.21 in revenue.

"Undocumented residents have a positive influence and impact on the economy, since they pay taxes and fees and constitute an important part of the labor market," he wrote. "Even if we consider the costs of undocumented immigrants to the state of Texas, the benefits outweigh the costs."

Rodrguez-Snchez used Texas as a case study because "it is one of the most populous states in the United States, with an unauthorized population considered representative of that of the whole country," according to the paper.