America's post-Dobbs abortion ban has mostly just created a massive mail-order boom
Two years after the Supreme Court nuked federal abortion rights, the big takeaway isn't that abortions stopped—it's that they just went heavily postal.
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, conservative states expected a sudden baby boom. Instead, they got a masterclass in interstate logistics.
It turns out, making something illegal in one state just turns neighboring states into medical travel hubs and the US Postal Service into an accidental distributor. Telehealth clinics popped up in shield states, prescribing abortion pills to women living in states with total bans.
Doctors in places like New York or Massachusetts now legally mail pills to patients in Texas or Idaho, protected by state laws that basically tell red-state prosecutors to go touch grass. The result? Nationwide abortion numbers actually rose.
The grand plan to end abortion ended up turning the entire country into an unregulated, highly efficient system of long-distance mailing and road trips.
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