Commentary
Roe v. Wade has been overturned. This has rightfully been highlighted as one of the most monumental developments of our lifetime.
That is because the case hits at the very nexus of forces that define the American national identity: social, political, legal jurisprudence, economic, and even spiritual. It causes us to wrestle with the foundational questions of what it means to be a citizen of the United States.
The implications of the vastly different ways in which we answer these questions reverberate throughout all aspects of our public life.
That’s not hyperbole; the decision to scrap Roe has already had the expected effect of further dividing the American populace into separate and seemingly irreconcilable camps. The fact of the matter is that citizens of this country have been drifting further apart for some time. This reality will not come as a revelation to anyone who has been out in the world recently (or spent time on Twitter); however, this case truly does have the potential to be an inflection point for our future shared—or unshared—course as a nation….