Opinion | The Authoritarian Plan for a National Abortion Ban
Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times The anti-abortion movement was never going to stop with overturning Roe v. Wade. For years, Republicans have argued that their goal was to return the issue of abortion to the states. At no point was this believable; since 1984, the Republican Party platform has called for a constitutional amendment banning abortion. Having spent decades denouncing abortion as a singular moral evil, the anti-abortion movement will not be content to return to a pre-Roe status quo, where abortion was legal in some places but not others. So it’s not that surprising that,...