Made to Suffer for Her Sins

Published: July 16, 2018, 8:03 p.m.

Last spring, Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress worked together to pass a bill that would have gutted the Affordable Care Act. That piece of legislation doubled as an ideological manifesto: By letting states waive insurance protections for women who\u2019ve been pregnant, given birth, survived a sexual assault, or experienced domestic violence, the GOP laid out a medical framework that treated women\u2019s bodies as inherently sick, aberrations from the norm.