Carhart’s Return to the 19th Century

Professor Reva Siegel, whose work we’ve linked to before, weighs in on the Carhart decision in the NYT:

That abortion is bad for fetuses is a statement of the obvious. That it is bad for women, too, is a contested premise that nonetheless got five votes at the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
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The shift in the court’s discourse was “enormous,” said Prof. Reva B. Siegel of Yale Law School. It was, she said, “beyond Alice in Wonderland: criminalize abortion to protect women.”


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