Even before the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, it was pretty clear where

the national abortion battle was headed next.

For those intent on ending abortions in parts of the United States, the biggest barrier

may now not be politics, but pills.

This is a CNN piece from back in early June.

It was all but certain what the justices were about to do, but totally uncertain when

or how they'd do it.

People are really, really scared of what's going to happen.

That's why some abortion rights supporters, such as women on waves, based in the Netherlands,

say they are already facilitating shipments of the drugs to women in far-flung corners

of the U.S.

And they're promising to step up the effort no matter where those women are, or what

state laws say.

Listening back to a story like this, it seems like just for a minute, abortion rights supporters

thought they had figured out a work around.

And in a way, they had.

Before the dobs ruling even came down, the FDA made abortion pills accessible by mail.

Over the next few months, the Biden administration made sure pharmacies could dispense the

pills, too.

A lot of people believed that abortion pills would be a great stopgap measure.

Slates Christina Katarucci has been following all this from the start.

She's called the rise of abortion pills, a revolution.

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