Officially my last guest essay edit as editor-in-chief. It’s an important one.
Olivia Messer
“We asked the state a simple question: How dead did we have to be to receive healthcare that could save our viable babies and our own lives? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called us ‘woke.’”
thebarbedwire.com/2026/05/29/k...
Texas’ attorney general said we weren’t dead enough for an abortion — that our doctors were right to deny us care.
