Viktoria Shulevich emigrated from Moscow to New York when she was 11, then graduated from a tiny high school in Brooklyn. When she visited and fell in love with Boston University, she writes, it felt wildly rebellious and indulgent, like stepping into someone else’s life.

The case concerning medication abortion currently before the U.S. Supreme Court isn't about drug safety and efficacy, writes Dominique Lee, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts. It's about politics.