NY Post editorial on Roe v. Wade at 40

My friend Nancy sent this to me.

There’s no naïveté quite like that of the sophisticate. Forty years ago this day, the Supreme Court upended the laws of all 50 states in Roe v. Wade — and The New York Times pronounced the issue settled.

“The court’s verdict on abortions,” said the Times, “provides a sound
foundation for final and reasonable resolution of a debate that has
divided America too long. As with the division over Vietnam, the country
will be healthier with that division ended.”

Four decades on, we
are hard-pressed to find any sign this division is ended. To the
contrary, by substituting the preferences of unelected judges for the
people acting through their elected representatives, Roe has only made
the issue more divisive.

It's a short editorial – I excerpted about a third of it. it includes a picture of Norma McCorvey, the origianl "roe" in the decision, and who is now anti-abortion and working to overturn the decision.


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