The tiny American towns passing anti-abortion rules
“Would we ever see an abortion clinic in Hayes Center? Maybe not,” said Kim Primavera, a Hayes Center trustee. Four of the village’s five trustees are women, and most are young. They represent about 280 people here. “But it’s always better to be proactive than reactive in life in general,” she said. The Hayes Center Times-Republican, the local newspaper which Primavera partially owns, reported that not a single person in town spoke against the measure. The towns and their leaders differ, but there is one constant: traveling preacher Mark Lee Dickson, a director of the tiny non-pro...