This month will bring to a close one of the harshest administrations on reproductive rights in recent history; what has been less clear in the weeks since the election is what exactly the Biden administration will do to defend and extend these rights.

As an issue, abortion has long motivated the bases of both parties, and the stance of a candidate can turn out large numbers of single-issue voters. Despite the ongoing assault on reproductive rights, however, the Democratic Party has been much less vocal on the topic recently, barely giving it a mention at their national convention in August. The death of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett looked set to place the issue front and center six weeks out from the election, but by polling day, it had faded back into the background.

What went unmentioned in the state-by-state coverage of the race was that six of those fifty-two states have only one abortion clinic each. Any focus on voting patterns at county level meant viewers were almost definitely looking at an area without a clinic: only 10 percent of counties in the United States have one. And the relative win for reproductive rights at the presidential level was not mirrored in Congress, where the number of anti-choice women representatives doubled.