The consequences of overruling Roe v. Wade go well beyond the issue of abortion rights
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In remarkably swift fashion—within a few short years—Americans have been given a front-row seat into the wholesale corruption of each of the three branches of our republic, all courtesy of the Republican Party. We had a presidency that transformed thThe consequences of overruling Roe v. Wade go well beyond the issue of abortion rights
In remarkably swift fashion—within a few short years—Americans have been given a front-row seat into the wholesale corruption of each of the three branches of our republic, all courtesy of the Republican Party. We had a presidency that transformed the country into a pathetic laughingstock on the world stage and proved dismally incompetent at and utterly indifferent toward performing its basic domestic responsibility of protecting the health and lives of the American people. We have seen half of our federal legislative branch now transformed into a rabid, violence-stoking cult bent on preserving the degenerate legacy of that same president. And now, at long last, we see the last pillar of our constitutional system, our “independent” judiciary, succumbing to the same corruption—capitulating so completely to this ideology that a bedrock constitutional right that affects one-half of the American population directly, and indirectly affects all Americans, is now on the verge of being eliminated. But as the defeat of Donald Trump has reminded us, bad presidents can be thrown out of office. And the conservative rot that permeates our legislatures can, in theory, at least, be reversed. The fall of the federal judiciary to this right-wing poison, however, is a blow like no other. Unelected and appointed for life, federal judges possess a unique status in our system, one that now threatens to wield its destructive, malevolent forces against us, despite all the voting and organizing that American citizens can muster to oppose it. Kimberly Wehle is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore. In an article for the Atlantic, she takes on the disconcerting task of explaining just how significantly the Supreme Court’s looming reversal of Roe v. Wade could impact many other rights that the vast majority of Americans now take for granted—rights such as choosing who they marry, who they choose to have sex with, or how they raise children. Read more