The Court Wrongly Strips Women of a Fundamental Right

On June 24, 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court, in an unprecedented power grab, eviscerated a fundamental, constitutional right. This decision will be judged by history as harshly as the decades have condemned Dred Scott and Korematsu. The willingness of the far-right majority to strip women of the right to abortion demonstrates contempt for women's rights, bodily autonomy, history, reason and legal precedent. The practice of abortion, contrary to Justice Samuel Alito's opinion is, in fact, deeply rooted in our history. At the time of the founding, state laws protected access to abortion until the point of quickening. As the world has long known the Court, in the landmark ruling in 1973 in Roe v. Wade, held that women possess a constitutional right to govern their own reproductive organs. Justice Alito's lame effort to undercut the right of abortion…