This week’s Intercollegiate Review brings you two initial takes on the Dobbs ruling and the reactions to it
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CATEGORY: ABORTION (5 min)
** Life After Roe ([link removed])
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You might think that “the courts are getting out of the abortion business. ([link removed]) ”
After all, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization doesn’t regulate abortion—it simply returns the issue to the states.
Not so fast. You need to examine its language carefully.
Writing in First Things, Notre Dame law professor Gerard V. Bradley does just that.
And he finds that Dobbs in fact portends a future in which judicial protection of the unborn under the Constitution is contested . . . and affirmed.
It turns out the decision has some very interesting things ([link removed]) to say about fetal personhood . . .
. . . and about the feasibility of “fetal viability” as a line at which the government's interest becomes compelling.
In short: Buckle up, pro-life advocates ([link removed]) . Dobbs is “the end of the beginning of the greatest civil rights struggle of our time.”
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CATEGORY: MARKETS & CULTURE (5 min)
** Who's really controlling your "reproductive choices?" ([link removed])
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Matthew Schmitz watched ([link removed]) the protestors shouting obscenities outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral the night of Roe’s reversal.
And he wants to say, "Turn around! You’re outside the wrong building."
Writing in Compact, ([link removed]) Schmitz argues that the coercive power in women’s lives today is not the church or state, but rather “the reign of capital in the name of progress.”
Not St. Patrick’s but the Rockefeller Center, the edifice for a capitalism that “maximizes profits while promising liberation.”
Abortion, Schmitz notes, ensures that women can be pressured to sacrifice not for family but for economic productivity.
And he shares some surprising statistics ([link removed]) about the gap between the number of children women say they want to have and how many they actually have.
The fatuous Handmaid’s Tale protest costumes in fact reveal a deeper truth about the protesters, Schmitz suggests:
“They have been, and remain, the handmaids of capital.”
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Ban Abortions as a Tool For Eugenics ([link removed]) via Lone Conservative
We Are The Post Roe Generation ([link removed]) via Gordon Review
CATEGORY: CONSERVATIVE HISTORY (6 min)
** Legalize Christian Marriage Too ([link removed])
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In 2013, John Zmirak wrote his reactions to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. Arguing that it revoked Constantine's Edict of Milan. . . ([link removed])
. . . Zmirak goes on to explain how this has been a slow inevitability since the French Revolutionaries first introduced the idea of "civil marriage."
In the wake of the Dobbs decision, it is useful to see all the other legal cases that have chipped away at the American tradition.
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Thought of the Day:
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“The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with a child.”
—Artistotle
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