Leonard Pitts: 'Though the court is considered the final arbiter of national disputes, there have been times it was anything but.'
A sign reads, "I have a heartbeat too" held up by a woman in attendance at the Capitol in support of abortion rights on Sunday, June 26, 2022.They called it “massive resistance.”
It’s a noxious bit of history that, paradoxically, may carry a seed of hope for advocates of reproductive rights in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. It reminds us that, though the court is considered the final arbiter of national disputes, there have been times it was anything but.
In a similar sense, we’ve discovered, in the weeks since the court struck down Roe, that it unsettled more than it settled. Consider last week’s news that a 10-year-old rape victim — her name has not been released — had to flee across state lines from Ohio to Indiana to have her pregnancy terminated. This, because the law in her home state would not permit the procedure.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and Rep. Brian Stewart suggested the story was a hoax. Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan tweeted that it was “another lie.”
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