We’re four weeks away from the presidential election, and Donald Trump is trying to make the nation forget that he is the one responsible for the fall of Roe v. Wade and the health care aftermath it has created for women.

The former president took to social media during last week's vice presidential debate to say that if a national abortion ban came through Congress, he would “VETO IT, BECAUSE IT IS UP TO THE STATES TO DECIDE.”

It doesn’t matter that he’s the one who appointed the Supreme Court justices who handed down the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision or that Trump has bragged about doing just that. He will say whatever he needs to convince you he deserves your vote. He's a liar. In reality, so many women are worse off because of him.

In the United States, 1 in 3 women now live in a state that bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. That is before many women know that they are pregnant, and a far cry from the access we had under Roe. Women have lost their lives because of six-week bans and the medical care confusion it has caused, and that is unacceptable.

Just look at what happened in Texas, where a law banning most abortions went into effect in 2021. From 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases there rose 56% compared with just 11%........

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