Commentary
By illegally publishing the draft decision of the Supreme Court several months before the final version was released, someone within the Court unleashed a firestorm of controversy in the United States. Demonstrations and counter-demonstrations erupted all over the country. The homes of the justices believed to have supported the repeal of the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade were picketed. An alleged attempt was made on the life of one of them.
When the final opinion was published on June 24, fierce outrage was expressed by radical advocates of abortion on demand. Yet there’s reason to believe that, after the shouting has died down, the repeal of the 1973 decision will actually serve to defuse the issue and heal a deep and enduring wound in the American body politic that has become only more inflamed over the past half-century. That decision was nothing less than an “exercise of raw judicial power,” in the words of dissenting Justice Byron White at the time, and it sparked a national controversy that has embittered America’s political culture ever since….
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