In a Monday press conference marking 50 years since Roe v. Wade, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, who heads the Reproductive Rights Task Force, made clear that, under their leadership, the Department of Justice will do everything it can to continue protecting and promoting abortion. Even — especially? — when that means meddling with the abortion restrictions states are now fully empowered to determine for themselves.
It’s no secret that President Biden’s Department of Justice, in keeping with the Democratic Party’s fanaticism on this matter, disagrees with the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson. The day the Court overturned Roe and Casey, returning abortion policy to the states, AG Garland put out a statement claiming that the Court had “eliminated an established right that has been an essential component of women’s liberty for half a century — a right that has safeguarded women’s ability to participate fully and equally in society,” a “fundamental” right that it had “repeatedly recognized and reaffirmed.” But let’s remember that this “established, fundamental right” was the right to kill unborn humans; that the Court’s repeated recognitions and affirmations of it involved distortions and contortions to hold in place a ruling that even some honest abortion supporters admitted was fundamentally flawed; and that the continuation of the Roe/Casey abortion regime involved nationwide circumvention of the democratic process.
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