Celebrating life
Opinion
June 5, 2026

Celebrating life

There’s a fury on the right about the Trump administration’s refusal to roll back Biden-era mail-order abortion-pill dispensing. The Biden change was supposed to be a COVID thing. Anyone who has ever paid any attention to life could have guaranteed you that was not the endgame, however.

But this White House is all too happy to have wiped its hands of abortion, being able to claim the end of Roe v. Wade at the Supreme Court level as its right-wing trophy.

And fair enough. It was at pro-life gat...

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