美国已经习惯了堕胎禁令所带来的恐怖。共和党人一直试图压制这些报道。自2022年多布斯案裁决以来，堕胎议题已从新闻头条中淡出，而共和党人对此乐见其成。在最高法院推翻“罗诉韦德案”后的最初阶段，数百万女性失去了堕胎所赋予她们的尊严与自主权，诊所纷纷关门，多布斯案对公共卫生造成的严重负面影响开始显现，那时堕胎议题似乎总是占据着新闻头条。当时有大量的相关报道。出现了首位已知因堕胎禁令而死亡的女性；随后是第二位；接着是第三位。各种诉讼和投票倡议在一段时间内导致多个州的堕胎服务时断时续；此外还有州最高法院的选举，这些选举因堕胎辩论而发生了根本性的转变，一州女性的健康与地位如今都维系于此。在共和党控制的州，许多诊所被迫关门，这些诊所几十年来在充满敌意的环境下，凭借着令人惊叹的坚持、创新和决心，提供了至关重要却备受污名化的医疗服务。
The US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the stories Abortion has faded from the headlines since the Dobbs decision of 2022, and Republicans like it that way. In the immediate aftermath of the supreme court’s overturning of Roe v Wade, as millions of women lost access to the dignity and self-determination that abortion provided them, clinics shut their doors, and the extent of Dobbs’s horrendously adverse public health implications started to become clear, abortion was always, it seemed, in the headlines. There were plenty of stories. There was the first known woman to die as the result of an abortion ban; and then the second; and then the third. There were the various lawsuits and ballot initiatives that for a while turned access off and on and then off again in various states; then there were the state supreme court elections, races that were newly transformed by the abortion debate and on which the health and status of a state’s women now relied. There were the clinics that shut their doors in Republican-controlled states, many of which had provided the essential, stigmatized care for decades, under hostile conditions, with persistence and innovation and determination that were staggering.
然而，随着时间的推移，这些新闻故事逐渐从人们的视野中消失了。女权主义已经彻底过时了：那些致力于女性权益的非政府组织在多布斯案的裁决以及特朗普政府的攻击下受到了严重打击，几乎无法在媒体或政策层面推动自己的议程；而算法驱动的社交媒体则加剧了性别保守主义和带有政治色彩的厌女情绪，尤其是在年轻男性中。更重要的是，堕胎问题也不再成为人们关注的焦点——因为堕胎禁令所带来的种种危害早已不再成为新闻。美国社会已经逐渐习惯了女性健康状况的恶化以及女性地位的不断下降；人们对女性所遭受的死亡和侮辱变得习以为常，甚至产生了一种“逆来顺受”的冷漠态度。
But the stories have faded from the headlines as the years have gone by. Feminism has gone dramatically out of style, with the big women’s rights NGOs wounded enough by Dobbs and attacks from the Trump administration that they have been largely unable to push their agenda in either media or policy, and algorithmic social media driving a rise in gender conservatism and politicized misogyny, particularly among young men. But maybe more importantly, abortion has ceased to be a story because the horrors of abortion bans have ceased to be news: the US has grown used to the swift and dramatic erosion of women’s health and status that has followed Dobbs, grown used to the horror stories and upward ticking body counts, grown into ease, and even a kind of compliant boredom, with women’s death and indignity.