“A Reasonable Supreme Court? Hardly. Don’t Be Fooled by this Extremist Establishment:” Moira Donegan ’12 on the Court’s Recent Abortion Pill Ruling for the Guardian
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In an opinion piece for the Guardian, Bard Written Arts alumna and journalist Moira Donegan ’12 cautions that we should not be fooled by the highest court’s decision to allow the abortion drug mifepristone to remain available—temporarily staying a Texas federal judge’s ruling to reverse the drug’s FDA approval and pull it from US markets—while the case goes through an appeals process. Donegan deduces “sharp intra-Republican disagreement over how to handle the unexpectedly virulent political fallout from the Dobbs decision” among the right-wing Supreme Court justices who jointly ruled to overturn abortion access as a federal right. She asserts the ideologues want to “hit the gas” while the institutionalists want to “pump the brakes,” but that doesn’t change where they are all headed. “Do not let the mifepristone ruling fool you about where this extremist court is going,” she writes.
While the nation waited for the Supreme Court to issue its order on mifepristone, the past week served as a stark realization of “just how far the Overton window has shifted, and just how low the standards for women’s health and freedom have sunk, in the months since Dobbs.” She notes that “developments that could only have been fairly understood as grave insults to women’s dignity were instead pitched as mercies or signs of moderation.”
Post Date: 04-25-2023
While the nation waited for the Supreme Court to issue its order on mifepristone, the past week served as a stark realization of “just how far the Overton window has shifted, and just how low the standards for women’s health and freedom have sunk, in the months since Dobbs.” She notes that “developments that could only have been fairly understood as grave insults to women’s dignity were instead pitched as mercies or signs of moderation.”
Post Date: 04-25-2023