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In an article in the January 28 New York Times by the Supreme Court correspondent Adam Liptak, “New Justice Will Have Little Power to Thwart Supreme Court’s Rightward Lurch,” Liptak cites the Benjamin Cardozo Law School professor Kate Shaw to the effect that “some members of the court may have been emboldened by the lack of a sustained national outcry over the Texas abortion law.” He goes on to quote her directly:
“They’ve dipped their toe in the water of essentially ending Roe in the second-most populous state in the nation,” she said. “They may well have drawn the conclusion that any backlash to the overruling of Roe would be somewhat muted or short-lived and would not create an existential threat to the court.”
Think about it: the lack of a sustained outcry after the Texas anti-abortion law may have given the Court a political green light to overturn the constitutional right to abortion. Such a decision will immediately put this essential right out of reach for tens of millions of women and clear the way for moves on the federal level to outlaw it altogether.
You may not win every time you struggle—and so long as we live under this capitalist-imperialist system, with patriarchy and white supremacy at its foundational core and knitted into its fibers, every major victory, wrenched through struggle, will be partial and needs to be defended—but you will certainly lose every time you don’t fight.
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