As an American woman, I have for my entire life been assured of a legal right to procure an abortion. Not once but twice, the highest court in the land has affirmed my "right to choose" whether or not to continue an existing pregnancy. Now, suddenly, it is genuinely possible that this reality may change, and that abortion law may be returned to the states while I am yet in my childbearing years. It's a terrifying prospect.
To be clear, I'm not concerned about my reproductive rights. As an orthodox Catholic and committed pro-lifer, I want restrictive abortion laws, of a sort that can afford real protections to our society's most vulnerable human beings. I believe Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood need to be abandoned. Roe is a jurisprudential train wreck that has done more than any court ruling in recent history to undermine our government's proper separation of powers. It needs to go.
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