I found this post extremely interesting, but it raised a few questions for me. I wonder how the government flipped to the decision made in 2022 during Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization so quickly, or that could just be from my perspective. I wonder if it was possible a rise in conservative beliefs among citizens in recent years, or something else. I find it hard to even grasp how such a decision could be so easily flipped in such a short amount of time.
The groundwork for overturning Roe was laid over decades as conservative legal thinkers developed constitutional theories questioning whether abortion rights were properly grounded in the Constitution's text and history. The key wasn't changing public opinion, but rather changing the Court's composition - Trump's three appointments (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett) created a 6-3 conservative majority with a fundamentally different approach to constitutional interpretation. What felt like a sudden flip in 2022 was actually the culmination of a 50-year intellectual and legal movement that viewed Roe as constitutionally flawed, regardless of personal views on abortion policy.
I found this post extremely interesting, but it raised a few questions for me. I wonder how the government flipped to the decision made in 2022 during Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization so quickly, or that could just be from my perspective. I wonder if it was possible a rise in conservative beliefs among citizens in recent years, or something else. I find it hard to even grasp how such a decision could be so easily flipped in such a short amount of time.
The groundwork for overturning Roe was laid over decades as conservative legal thinkers developed constitutional theories questioning whether abortion rights were properly grounded in the Constitution's text and history. The key wasn't changing public opinion, but rather changing the Court's composition - Trump's three appointments (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett) created a 6-3 conservative majority with a fundamentally different approach to constitutional interpretation. What felt like a sudden flip in 2022 was actually the culmination of a 50-year intellectual and legal movement that viewed Roe as constitutionally flawed, regardless of personal views on abortion policy.