Banning the morning-after pill won’t work either, and it will lead to a dangerous black market that could imperil the lives of young women and be a boon to criminal drug peddlers across the country.

Chasing down women who travel across state lines to get an abortion is not politically or morally sustainable.

The most politically defensible position is to find a timeframe, probably 15 to 20 weeks, after which most Americans believe abortion should be illegal. If this position is good enough for Western Europe, it should be good enough for the United States of America — and most polls find that it is.

Making sure companies that pay for their employees’ abortions don’t get tax breaks is a winning issue for Republicans. Making sure that companies don’t pressure their employees to get abortions so they keep working is another good issue.