Anti-abortion campaign intensifies as legal abortions rise

Republicans control the Senate, House, and White House, and the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, yet more abortions occur in the U.S. due to pills received by post.

Legal challenges seek to block access to abortion pills by mail, and some politicians propose criminalizing women who take them, breaking a prior movement taboo.

Shield laws in Massachusetts and seven other states protect providers of abortion pills from criminal charges; nearly 15,000 monthly abortions are provided under such laws.

Louisiana has tried to extradite doctors from New York and California under shield laws, but Democratic governors blocked the warrants.

A case against shield laws may reach the Supreme Court, but legal challenges have been slowed by design features of the shield laws.