Commentary
What’s more democratic: The Supreme Court imposing a controversial abortion right on the entire country or allowing that contentious issue to be debated and ultimately decided by the people through their elected representatives or voter referenda? Obviously, people deciding for themselves is the more democratic.
But pro-abortion activists—appalled by the prospect that their precious Roe v. Wade could soon be overturned—irrationally claim that returning abortion policy to the democratic realm would be “anti-democratic.” The feminist pundit Jill Filipovic set the tone when she railed in The Guardian that the prospect of “the demise of abortion rights in the US is the outcome of years of anti-democratic organizing,” and nothing less than “a sign of democracy in decline.”
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