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On Losing "Roe"

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On Losing "Roe" How Could this Possibly have Happened? Easy. Pro-Choice Movement, Look in the Mirror Dr Naomi Wolf Last Friday, in a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down the ruling  Roe v Wade  via its decision on  Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization . Across the country, understandably, frightened and angry young women are protesting; screaming and weeping. The organized, institutional, heavily funded US feminist movement, which for fifty years has predicated American feminist ideology, and its own donor appeals, on the foundation of defending  Roe , is calling this ruling a travesty. I am going to argue that the defeat of  Roe  is not in fact a defeat of women but a necessary evolution in the law, in response to women’s ascendancy in America over the last fifty years. Before I do, though, I warn that the  Roe  decision is being used as a pretext for a campaign to delegitimize the Supreme Court. This anti-SCOTUS campaign fits in as p...