The Long Defeat? What Dobbs’s Anniversary Reveals About the Civilizational Stakes of the Pro-Life Cause
Today marks the fourth anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court decision that overturned fifty years of constitutionally dubious precedent and returned the question of abortion to the democratic deliberation of the American people. It is a moment worth pausing to examine honestly — not with the triumphalism that sometimes tempts the victorious, nor with the despair that sometimes afflicts the honest observer. It demands, rather, the kind of sober analysis that has characterized the best of the American political tradition.
