Commentary
If you filter out the noise, lawmakers and legal minds have long acknowledged the foundational problems with Roe.
All eyes have been on the Supreme Court since Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked in May. Since then, both sides of the aisle have been preparing their troops for a media war as the country anxiously awaited the final majority opinion addressing the Mississippi abortion law.
While the media depicts Dobbs as outrageous for overturning Roe v. Wade, legal experts see it as a course correction, returning decision-making authority to the states, where it always belonged in the first place. Last week, the Supreme Court released its decision on Dobbs and overturned Roe and its progeny….