Abortion Bans Collide With Red States’ Liberty, Autonomy Stands

Conservative state efforts to block abortions are colliding with their own guarantees to liberty and privacy, in some cases paradoxically helping activists to fight off abortion restrictions across the US.

The tension in the states has surfaced as activists look for ways to secure reproductive rights after the Supreme Court’s June Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision stripping decades-old guarantees under federal law to abortion access.

States like Indiana, North Dakota, and Ohio have launched increasingly restrictive measures against abortions only to have state courts step in and reverse course.

Previously, federal courts were “the natural place ...