We learned to live without slavery. So it will have to be with abortion.
Can we learn to live without “abortion rights”? That’s the question we need to answer calmly and rationally in the furor erupting over the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion that concludes: “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled.”
It is a troubling part of the human condition that an unjust practice can be kept in place long after its injustice has been exposed.
We argue earnestly that because we have relied on it for so long, it is now an indispensable part of who we are and of how we live. We convince ourselves that we can’t change it.
