Matrimonial lawyers are an opinionated group, and rightfully so. Our practice is permeated with coming face to face with the inner workings of a wide variety of personal relationships, including marriage and co-parenting. It would be unnatural, and likely unwise, to approach this area of the law by taking the feather in the wind approach. Instead, we regularly voice our opinions, and fervently argue for our clients.

But somehow, there is what seems to be a borderline deafening silence amongst matrimonial lawyers about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Granted, some practitioners are speaking up and this author commends those efforts. For example, the New York State Bar Association’s Women in Law Section issued a moving statement on Dobbs which, in part, states that the “majority’s decision is an attack on the constitutional rights and lives of women and all childbearing persons. It intentionally disregards the importance of women’s autonomy over their lives, physical selves, and well-being.”