Instinctively to many Americans on both sides of the abortion debate the issue seems somehow too important to be decided in state legislatures and other democratic arenas. With the Supreme Court having declared the question of abortion "returned to the people and their elected representatives," there's a sense of bracing ourselves for the all-out political brawl to come, state by state, election by election, voter by voter. Is this really the way important moral issues should be dealt with? Shouldn't there be an authority somewhere who can take the pre-born child's basic right to life (for some of us) or a woman's basic right to control of her body (for others), and enshrine that right somewhere out of reach of debates and tv ads and ordinary voters? Of course this is exactly what the dissenting justices bemoaned about the Court's decision to overturn Roe and Casey.
Dobbs and Democracy and God
Dobbs and Democracy and God
Dobbs and Democracy and God
Instinctively to many Americans on both sides of the abortion debate the issue seems somehow too important to be decided in state legislatures and other democratic arenas. With the Supreme Court having declared the question of abortion "returned to the people and their elected representatives," there's a sense of bracing ourselves for the all-out political brawl to come, state by state, election by election, voter by voter. Is this really the way important moral issues should be dealt with? Shouldn't there be an authority somewhere who can take the pre-born child's basic right to life (for some of us) or a woman's basic right to control of her body (for others), and enshrine that right somewhere out of reach of debates and tv ads and ordinary voters? Of course this is exactly what the dissenting justices bemoaned about the Court's decision to overturn Roe and Casey.