The cruelty is the entire point
Via pianomover, what it’s like for women who desperately need access to reproductive healthcare but don’t live in the right state or have the same connections as the Duggars:
We’ll have statistics for the hospitalizations that these bans cause, data on how many women are denied care and – inevitably – how many women die.
What will be impossible to calculate, though, is the suffering— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) February 25, 2023
It’s worth noting again that the effect of Dobbs will be to move abortion policy outcomes much further from median and modal public opinion on net, including in most of the states that will pass draconian abortion bans.