What Does the End of Roe Mean?

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Posted: Jun 30, 2022 12:01 AM

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In the desperate days of the Falklands War, the news that British forces had retaken South Georgia Island was received as a rare blessing in a season of defeat. Harried by press and media outside her residence, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had one simple message for them, and for the nation: “Just rejoice at that news.”I think of that moment now, in the immediate aftermath of the tremendous victory — for life, for the Constitution, for America — in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case at the Supreme Court. So many questions arise from it: questions of policy, questions of prudence, and questions of politics. But those questions, legitimate and pressing as they are, cannot obscure the essential core of the matter. Life won. The American system worked. A monstrous regime of half a century that sacrificed millions of our unborn children to the murderous demands of cruel calculus is over. Just rejoice at that news. Rejoice. Rejoice because this moment was never supposed to come. Think about the overwhelming forces arrayed against this victory. The received wisdom that killing a child in the womb was not only permissible but — most awfully — a positive good w …