Some States Are Quietly Using the Coronavirus to Restrict Abortion

Article originally appeared in InStyle on March 30th, 2020.

Advocates say that banning both abortions at clinics and abortions through social-distancing-acceptable telehealth shows what the real motivation behind these restrictions are: curbing reproductive rights, not just the spread of the coronavirus. "Anti-abortion politicians cannot have it both ways — closing clinics so that patients have to travel for care while telling them to stay inside and wait it out, knowing they've made it impossible to get an abortion via telemedicine, via mail, and later in pregnancy," Renee Bracey Sherman, the founder of We Testify, an organization dedicated to the leadership and representation of people who have abortions, tells InStyle.