“Our first patient is 11-years-old.” That’s the first thing I heard when I walked into clinic the last week of June. It was a few days after the Dobbs decision and the beginning of a new era in the U.S.: Roe v. Wade had been overturned—the constitutional right to abortion had been revoked. In California,…
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Griswold and Its Discontents: A Provocation
In June 2022, the US Supreme Court reversed a half century of judicial precedent in ruling that there is no longer constitutional right to an abortion in this country. In the weeks after a draft opinion of Dobbs leaked, activist and scholarly discourse on the Left quickly turned to the next decisions likely imperiled by…