I was lucky to get to sit in on today's arguments in the June Medical abortion case at SCOTUS. I'll leave the heavy-duty legal analysis to others, but here are some stray thoughts. (Which all boil down to one thought, really: Good god please think about the courts when voting!) For one thing, I was struck by how simple this case really is. There wasn't a lot of legal jargon being thrown around. I honestly think anyone would've been able to follow the arguments and the questions from the justices. It made me wish all Americans could see it!

My colleagues on the NYT editorial board and I have a new series out on fetal personhood — how that notion has been propagated by the anti-abortion movement, lawmakers, and prosecutors, and how it's resulted in women losing rights in a number of ways. nytimes.com/interactive/20… How women grieving after a lost pregnancy or a newborn’s accidental death are being charged with crimes nytimes.com/interactive/20…