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Catherine Rampell: Can corporations save us from the attack on reproductive rights?

Video: The Alabama state Senate passed the country’s most restrictive abortion legislation May 14 that could set a precedent for other legislative bodies. (Blair Guild/The Washington Post)

When our political system fails us, when our electoral system fails us and when even our judicial system fails us, can corporate America serve as our final firewall against terrible state policies designed to rob women of their reproductive autonomy?

This year, more than a dozen states have worked to ban abortion about six weeks after conception, before many women even realize they're pregnant. In a handful of states, the bills have already been signed into law.