How many laws making it harder to get an abortion will pass before the Supreme Court sees them for what they are — part of a tireless, coordinated nationwide assault on the right of women to control what happens with their own bodies without the interference of politicians?

One answer is, no fewer than 288. That’s how many abortion restrictions states have enacted since the beginning of 2011, when aggressively anti-choice lawmakers swept into statehouses around the country.

The trend accelerated in 2015, as state legislators passed 57 new constraints on a woman’s right to choose. Hundreds more were considered, most of which could come up again in 2016. Most of the time, lawmakers are clever enough to disguise their true intent by claiming that their interest is in protecting women’s physical or mental health. But now and then the facade falls away, as when the Mississippi governor, Phil Bryant, called a set of restrictions he signed into law in 2012 “the first step in a movement” that aims to “end abortion in Mississippi.”

This is the ominous purpose the justices must not ignore as they hear a major lawsuit from Texas early next year. The case involves a state law passed in 2013 requiring abortion clinics to meet the same building, equipment and staffing standards as ambulatory surgical centers, a costly and medically unnecessary standard. The law also requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic.