Life After Roe

You might think that “the courts are getting out of the abortion business.”

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 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. Dobbs is “the end of the beginning of the greatest civil rights struggle of our time.”

Who's really controlling your "reproductive choices?"

Matthew Schmitz watched 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, 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 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.”

American Economic Forum: July 29-30, Washington, D.C.

ISI invites you to our 2022 American Economic Forum, to be held July 29-30 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., to hear leading conservative politicians, intellectuals, and thought leaders debate the best way for conservatives in 2022 to apply fundamental economic principles to our current crises.

For a limited time, students register for free. And if you’re under 30, weekend tickets are only $50.

You’ll hear panel discussions on a range of important topics, including: cronyism in the administrative state, China geonomics, big tech censorship, woke capital, middle-class prosperity, and more.

This is a conversation you don’t want to miss.
 

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