Those three words, "Solutions, not problems," are the lodestar that can guide us as we move forward in a post-Roe America.
Dr. Tiller didn't live long enough to see the more dire problems that the U.S. now faces. Since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022, 12 states states have banned abortion. More than a third of U.S. women of reproductive age now live more than an hour from an abortion care provider. The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world. Black women are three times more likely to die during pregnancy or postpartum than white women. We cannot possibly talk about the state and protections of the fetus, without having conversations about the equality of women.
