What <em>Roe</em> Could Take Down With It
The consensus of Supreme Court watchers after Wednesday’s oral argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is that the demise of Roe v. Wade, or at least its dilution to a point that virtually any government-imposed “burden” on abortion would be constitutionally acceptable, is coming. After all, this Court allowed a Texas law effectively banning most abortions after six weeks to stand pending litigation, rejecting multiple pleas for a temporary stay—as clear a signal as any that at least five justices on the current Court have no problem with women’s constitutional rights (as currently recognized) being violated in the interim.
Many of the dangers of overruling have been long discussed. If women lose the right to. (Currently, have so-called trigger laws on the books that would outlaw most abortions the moment the Court reverses .) The impact of ’s fall would hit low-income women especially hard, as they’re as affluent women to experience unplanned childbearing and to face sexual violence.
