“Power, Not Reason”: The Fall of Roe and the Rise of Republican Orthodoxy at the Supreme Court

The ink was barely dry on the Supreme Court’s ruling expanding the scope and understanding of the Second Amendment right to bear arms when a five-justice majority eliminated, root and branch, what for nearly 50 years was an expectation of every American and their families: that women have a fundamental right to decide to end their pregnancy up to the moment of fetal viability. Roe v. Wade, which since 1973 has enshrined this protection, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 ruling that reaffirmed that landmark’s “central holding,” are dead and gone—a result that was born not of careful decision-making… Read Full Article