We’ll need to fight to protect US reproductive rights. Here’s what to expect | Sophie Brickman

Will there be a national abortion ban? A ban on mailed abortion medication? I talked to some experts

At around 10pm ET on election night, with prediction needles listing rightwards, and various friends' group chats starting to become inundated by the river-of-tears-down-my-face emoji - even that early, we were collectively way beyond a single tear - I left Steve Kornacki frantically bobbing and weaving around a map of Georgia, and went to bed. Somehow, I slept through until the morning, when I awoke in Trump's America", as news organizations were calling it, and to a torrent of emails and notes from friends bemoaning, among other things, the very real possibility of a federal abortion ban.

Are we still gonna have birth control?" one friend texted, in disbelief.

Sophie Brickman is a contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times and other publications, and the author of Baby, Unplugged: One Mother's Search for Balance, Reason, and Sanity in the Digital Age and the novel Plays Well With Others