No one should be exposed like this to the public gaze: doubled-over naked on the floor, covered in blood, but that was how Gerri Santoro died. She was 28, mother of two daughters, fleeing a violent husband when she realized she was pregnant. Using a scalpel and a textbook, she performed an abortion on herself. She hemorrhaged to death.

The police took the picture – a routine crime scene photo in 1964 when abortion was a crime. Back then, in those days before Roe, we vowed, Never Again.

And yet 60 years later, here we are. Again. Right now, today, 29 of the 50 states have either outlawed abortion completely, or allow it in such narrow circumstances that it’s impossible to get state approval. These laws criminalize doctors who perform abortions, or provide pills for a medical abortion.

In Georgia in 2022, Candi Miller died in the same terrible pain, with the same terrible bleeding, that killed Gerri Santoro. It’s a grim comfort that her husband and three children were with her, that unlike Ms. Santoro she did not die alone. But that husband and those children will never recover from the pain of watching their beloved wife and mother die. They will not recover from the helplessness they felt when no hospital would save her life because they feared the state’s reprisals.

For fifteen months after Trump’s Supreme Court struck down Roe, Wisconsin women were also denied the right to decide whether to carry a pregnancy to term, denied the right to end a pregnancy even if their lives were at stake. They could travel to Illinois or Minnesota, where abortion remained legal, but they weren’t planning a vacation. They needed to find childcare. They needed time off work. They needed money – upwards of $3000. They needed to travel alone, afraid, trusting their health and their lives to strangers.

Why is it that Trump and his judges, and billionaires like Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde want to see more women like Gerri Santoro and Candi Miller – desperate for care and dead for lack of it?

Here’s what we know about Trump: Twenty-eight women have come forward with credible reports of sexual abuse at his hands. He brags that he’s “a star,” and “when you’re a star they let you do it.”

Trump’s and JD Vance’s playbook for America is Project 2025. Project 2025 promises to apply laws like Georgia’s to the entire United States. There will be no haven states for Wisconsin women because the Republicans have promised a nationwide abortion ban.

If we value the lives of our sisters, and wives, and daughters, we will vote for Kamala Harris on November 5. We will return Tammy Baldwin to the United States Senate. We will not allow these men to take away our freedom to make our own medical decisions.

Activist and writer Sara Paretsky is the New York Times bestselling author of 22 novels featuring the valiant Chicago detective V.I. Warshawski. Since half her family lives in Wisconsin, you can look for her at the Dane County sheepdog trials.