Roe Is Radical. The Conservative Justices Aiming to Overturn It Are Not.
Even before the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization kicked off this week, prominent media voices were preemptively undermining a future decision by declaring this Supreme Court to be “radical.”
But let’s examine the charge of radicalism on its merits.
First, it’s important to reiterate that overturning Roe—which seems increasingly likely (you heard it here first)—would not ban abortion, but would, instead, send the issue back to states to decide via the democratic process. Despite what you might have read, this is hardly a radical idea.