The first thing to be said about Justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion striking down
Roe v. Wade, which was
published by Politico last night, is that it represents a catastrophe for Americans in general and
Americans with uteruses in particular. If we assume that some version of this opinion will ultimately be supported by at least five and possibly six of the Supreme Court’s nine justices, abortion will soon be banned in
nearly half the statesand significantly restricted in several others. Of those six justices, three were appointed by Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote twice, was impeached twice, and incited an anti-constitutional putsch; two were appointed by George W. Bush, who also lost the popular vote before his first term; and one, Clarence Thomas, is married to an
unhinged reactionary conspiracy theorist who actively supported that aforementioned putsch. A solid majority of Americans
believe abortion should be legal and reject the restrictions that will soon take effect; the stripping away of abortion rights is only possible because of a perfect storm of anti-majoritarian constitutional provisions that have divorced public opinion from the interpretation of the law.
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