“The question of abortion is up to the people”, rejoiced The Wall Street Journal June 24. “Is America still capable of resolving its political differences democratically and peacefully? We should soon know, now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade and returned to the states and the people’s consent, from which it should never have escaped, this vast ethical question that is the debate over abortion”writes the conservative daily.
“In the judgment given by six votes to three in the Dobbs case vs Jackson Women’s Health Organization, its detractors denounce a decision imposed by unelected magistrates. But, as Judge Byron White put it in his dissenting opinion in 1973, the real ‘brutal demonstration of the judiciary’ fut Roe vs Wade. With this judgment, seven magistrates claimed to have found in the Constitution a right to abortion which does not appear anywhere and which does not