But for the rest of us, who are more concerned with the lives of women already born – well, things are looking desperate in the wake of the election. (Note how I can’t bring myself to call it “the Trump administration”. I still have to say “the wake of the election”. It’s possible I’ll keep doing that for the next four years.)

We have a president-elect who, in a televised debate, characterised late-term abortion this way: “You can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month, on the final day.” His vice president Mike Pence has said of the new administration, “We’ll see Roe v. Wade [the 1973 ruling that made abortions legal in the US] consigned to the ash heap of history where it belongs."

“There is a sense of impending doom”: how it feels to be a woman in America right now