The Lasting Impact of Dobbs on Abortion Politics.

A year after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, abortion-related crime seems to be on the rise. The Justice Department is prosecuting a record number of abortion opponents with abortion-related crimes, including arson and clinic blockades, according to data from the Prosecution Project. In the year since the Dobbs decision, at least 30 abortion opponents have been charged federally with such crimes — a dramatic increase from just four people who were charged in 2021. The 30 post-Dobbs federal defendants represent nearly a third of all people charged with abortion-related federal crimes over the past three decades, according to the project’s data.