‘Victory has a thousand fathers,” said the president of the United States in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, “but defeat is an orphan.” No matter that JFK was paraphrasing Mussolini’s son-in-law, and no matter that, in the battle against Roe v. Wade, victory was assured by the efforts of the millions of mothers who bravely funded, volunteered, and otherwise sustained the life of the greatest countercultural social movement of our times.
What matters is that, in looking back on what it took to defy the alleged “super-precedent” that denied government any power to protect the lives of unborn children, we do not forget those without whose efforts the victory in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization would never have happened.
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