"I refuse to let my new granddaughter have to fight for the rights generations have fought for and won, rights that she should be guaranteed."

So said New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on the night of May 2, 2022. The draft opinion in the Mississippi abortion case (Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization) that would overturn Roe v. Wade at the Supreme Court had just been leaked, and this grandmother's response was to think about her newborn granddaughter in the context of abortion.

Dobbs became official that June, and within a week the pro-abortion Left was taking up the case of a 10-year-old girl in Ohio as a chief reason why the end of Roe was detrimental to the health and freedom of the women of the United States.

Once news broke, the case — the girl was taken from the Buckeye State to Indiana to have an abortion — quickly reached the White House and became a national rallying cry for advocates of abortion. "She was forced to have to travel out of the state to Indiana to seek to terminate the pregnancy and maybe save her life," then-President Biden said during White House remarks.

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