Column: It's not about babies; it's all about power - Suspension of a safe abortion medication is solely intended to sow fear and confusion.

Abortion restrictions are about power — particularly dominance over Black and brown women. And even the overturning of Roe vs. Wade last summer didn’t drive that home quite so much as Friday’s ruling from an ultraconservative Texas judge whose court order, if it stands, would thwart access to the safest and most common drug in use for chemical abortions by the end of this week.

“Misogyny amongst certain parts of our culture knows no bounds,” state Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Berkeley Democrat and head of the California Legislative Women’s Caucus, told me.

I can’t argue. We are, as she put it, in a “dark age” where hatred of women is “insidious and couched in morality.”

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