A Miscarriage of Justice

Abstract The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, dismantling five decades of reproductive choice established in Roe v. Wade, will have a chilling, and likely tragic, impact on women’s capacity to control their own bodies and their reproductive destinies. It may also unleash an array of policy attacks or private strikes against already vulnerable publics, outside of the context of abortion. Alito’s majority opinion and Thomas’s concurrence have placed a target on the backs of vulnerable communities by removing the glue that connected a range of protections and then explicitly calling for more carnage. Their decisions also reveal a troubling disregard for fact, science and reason.