Brian Laird on WNYC.

We'll take a look at how abortion rights fared on election night

and how abortion access is fairing in America.

Post Dobbs, Republican-led Ohio voted to enshrine abortion rights, as you probably heard on the news by now, into the state constitution.

And in Virginia, where Republicans push to outlaw most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy,

Democrats took control of the state legislature.

Very interesting result from Virginia that we'll talk about.

Also in Ruby Red Kentucky, voters reelected a Democratic governor

who attacked his Republican opponent

for supporting the state's near total abortion ban.

So we'll talk about whether these election results

might be a bellwether for 2024.

And we'll talk about the findings

of the first full year census of US abortion providers, the Society of Family

Planning's We Count Project, which found that despite the Dobbs decision, the total number of legal abortions in the country increased slightly.

Shifali Luthra is with us. She is a health care reporter at the 19th, a nonprofit newsroom covering gender and equity.

Shifali, always good to have you. Welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you so much for having me.

Let's start in Ohio, though we probably don't have to linger there too much because

people have been hearing this in the news last night and this morning but in

interesting detail 18 Ohio counties back Trump in 2020 and voted in favor of abortion

rights yesterday. Does that paint the clearest picture that Republicans

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