the United States Supreme Court's in depth and richly historical opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Health Clinic, overruling the inept Roe v. Wade decision;
- Does not make anything illegal, but returns the issue to the states.
- This means that people are supposed to address this issue democratically.
- Women are the majority of voters everywhere, and in states that propose to outlaw abortion, that's what the majority of polled women want.
Some additional observations.
- Roe was doomed from the start, as it never made any sense. The justices writing it made up the results out of thin air and seemed to presume that science had reached a permanent pinnacle in 1973.
- If people want to be mad at a court, be mad at that one.
- The "they're going to reverse everything" cry is misplaced. That comes from Justice Thomas' dissent, which is based on his view that "substantive due process" isn't a real thing. That is his view, but it's only really his view. His suggestion that the court should review all substantive due process cases held for the last 60 years isn't going to happen (even though at least one of the cases he mentions that was handed down in the last ten years should definitely be revisited).
One final note. Much of the on the streets, "we're shocked" protests is simply pure liberal theater, and nothing else. Most of the protesters have never read Roe, and most of them will move on to the next left wing cause de jour.
Roe' stank, as Constitutional law, for fifty years. It was time for it to go to the dumpster.
Oh, and on Dobbs, well a person can always read it for themselves.
Most won't, however.
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