The secret history of the GOP’s new abortion ban

Jill Adams quoted in Mother Jones, January 21, 2015

“All of these different tactics, all of these different theoretical persuasions, they’re all linked,” says Adams. “The original 20-week bans, or efforts to pass those bans, were predicated not on the notion that a fetus was pain-capable, but the desire to make abortions as difficult to procure—and ultimately impossible to procure—as possible.”