In March, a Texas midwife was arrested for allegedly performing illegal abortions (and practicing medicine without the appropriate license). She became the first health care provider criminally charged in the aftermath of Texas’ 2022 abortion ban.
The arrest prompted horror and instigated one of left-leaning social media’s favorite doomscrolling games: declaring that each new diminution of rights and bodily autonomy proves that we have gone from figuratively living in The…