By the time I visited Masterpiece Cakeshop in 2016, Jack Phillips, the man who had famously refused to bake a specialty cake celebrating the wedding of a gay couple, had been the victim of a four-year campaign of harassment by the authoritarians at the Colorado Civil Rights Commission intent on punishing him for a thought crime.
In a major win for the pro-life movement, dozens of abortion clinics across 15 states have stopped performing the procedure since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.