From the Chicago Sun-Times: Emboldened GOP ready to rock Roe
From my own anti-abortion perspective, I'm quite ambivalent about a post-Roe world. The debate that this country would have been able to conduct in the 1970's might just be beyond us now. We have had three decades plus of the two sides ostentatiously not engaging with one another, and why should they have? The pro-abortion lobby was enshrined as the living embodiment of the only absolute Constitutional right recognizable in the United States, and the anti-abortion forces were consigned to having a position, they were told, against the foundational document of the nation and as a consequence they were quite un-American. After thirty years the sides are unimaginably entrenched. They have not only been listening to their own choir exclusively, they have decided that their choir is the only possible voice worth listening to. If the onus of abortion law was suddenly thrown back to the individual states how could a coherent and humane abortion law be crafted in such an environment? The last thing either side has had to deal with is coming together to form a public policy.
Of course such difficulties come with the territory once you remove issues like abortion from the processes of a democratic society.
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