Since around 2pm on Monday, I've felt like a contestant on a sadistic Japanese game show, donning an American flag bikini and a blindfold, covered in glue and standing in a phone booth, trying to catch dollar bills with my flailing arms as an industrial strength blower propels cash around me at high speeds. But…

You marked it on your calendar ever since first hearing about it and have waited on tenterhooks until the fateful day in American history when Utah would sidestep South Dakota and become the very first state to institute a 72-hour waiting period for abortions. That day, Tuesday, is almost upon us.