The Left has shifted from supporting legal abortion to also pushing for “reproductive justice,” or the idea that everyone should have taxpayer-funded abortion clinics within a certain radius of their home. Legal abortion isn’t enough — now the government has an obligation to make accessing abortion more convenient for you, they say.
Many abortion advocates are lamenting that abortion clinics are “out of reach” for too many women. According to the New York Times, 11.3 million women are more than a one-hour drive from the nearest abortion facility. The ACLU noted that many states have less than a third of the abortion clinics they had 30 years ago and attributed the change to restrictive abortion regulations. However, this is simply untrue, and a look at the most recent Supreme Court precedent reveals this.
