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Seda Saluk, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan

Banning abortion is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

Abortion rights protesters march against Trump's deployment of federal troops to Washington, D.C., on Sept. 2, 2025. Jose Luis Magana/AP

Pregnant women crossing borders to get an abortion. People who miscarry facing jail time or dying from infection. Doctors who won’t perform lifesaving procedures on a pregnant patient for fear of prosecution.

For years, this was the kind of thing that happened in Poland, Nicaragua or El Salvador. Now, it’s headline news in the United States.

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