Demonstrators for and against abortion rights outside the U.S. Supreme Court on the day of arguments in the “Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt” case on March 2, 2016. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL.
One of my students took a break from studying for final exams to ask for my thoughts about the recent leak of the draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion overruling the Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey abortion precedents. I told him that the leak was inappropriate and that our government institutions are broken.
Abortion divides the Left and Right like no other issue in constitutional law. It also divides me. As a Catholic, I am required to oppose abortion because the Catechism of the Catholic Church decrees that “human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.” As a libertarian, I am supposed to support a woman’s liberty right to make her own choice about whether to carry her pregnancy to term.
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