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A year ago, the staff writer Emily Witt visited Fargo, North Dakota, to report on the Red River Women’s Clinic—the only abortion provider in the state. The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision had just come down, and the clinic was scrambling to move across state lines. This spring, Witt visited the clinic’s new home in Moorhead, Minnesota. A parking lot now shields patients from angry protesters, but North Dakota patients are increasingly fearful, afraid even, to cross the state line into Minnesota for an abortion. “It only takes one rogue prosecutor,” Tammi Kromenaker, the clinic’s director, told Witt. “I think people know that and have it in the back of their minds.” Plus, the architect of the Texas Heartbeat Act talks with the contributor Jeannie Suk Gersen about why the anti-abortion law was designed to undermine the Supreme Court. And the music critic Alex Ross talks about the work of the prolific film composer John Williams, whose score for the new Indiana Jones installment may be his final work.
North Dakota’s Only Abortion Clinic Leaves the State
After the Dobbs decision that reversed Roe v. Wade, North Dakota and thirteen other states banned most abortions. Emily Witt visits one clinic that managed to move across state lines.
Jonathan Mitchell, a Prominent Anti-Abortion Lawyer, on Restraining the Power of the Supreme Court
The architect of the Texas Heartbeat Act talks with the contributor Jeannie Suk Gersen about why he wants to undermine the Supreme Court’s power.
Film Composer John Williams Returns to “Raiders”
The critic Alex Ross on the prolific film composer whom he calls the last of an era. Williams’s score for the new Indiana Jones installment may be his final work.
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