Abortion Policy News

Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience greeted the news of the Supreme Court's overruling of Roe v. Wade with both joy and new resolve. Here's a sampling from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: In 1980, I was 22, single, and pregnant. I was devastated. My doctor told me to have an abortion. He recommended a…

Are “pro-choice” policymakers really interested in women having choices? A new bill from Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., shows they aren’t. Their target? Life-affirming, community-based pregnancy resource centers. Why target them? The abortion industry and its allies in Congress accuse pregnancy resource centers of being “fake clinics” that “deceive” pregnant women…

One of the central justifications for the left’s proposed court-packing scheme is to claim that the reversal of Roe v. Wade is so radically out of step with the American public that it is an undemocratic, minoritarian power grab. Not only is the argument based on the unconstitutional notion that justices should weigh the vagaries…

This week, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling overdue by some five decades, striking down Roe v. Wade (1973) and its constitutionally unsubstantiated “right to abortion.” Writing for the 6-3 majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Samuel Alito stated, “The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no…

The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the notorious 1973 decision that wrote abortion rights into law. Critics of the court’s new ruling overlook a crucial fact: By throwing out one of the most anti-democratic court decisions in the past 100 years, the justices have upheld the democratic process. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s…

In the 72 hours since the Supreme Court’s bombshell ruling, the Democrats’ hysteria has sucked up most of the oxygen in the room—and that’s just fine with corporate America. While some CEOs have taken their battle stations on the sinking ship of Roe v. Wade, the bigger story might be how many haven’t. It’s been an unusually…

Economists tend to believe that they deserve deference on a broad range of public policy questions that involve much more than economic analysis. They often say they are guided by reason and science. But economists’ wildly inaccurate reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision Friday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization should lead us to…

When she was 17, Cathy Harris had an abortion. After her abortion, Harris says she felt “immediate regret, immediate just grief that fell upon me.” “I wasn’t really sure what to do with it, where to put it,” she recalls. “A lot of people, friends of mine had continued to tell me that’s not a…

With Roe v. Wade no longer dictating abortion laws, state lawmakers are taking up the fight. Both pro-life and pro-abortion actors are asking the same question: Are we ready for “life after Roe”? Many states are enacting laws to protect the lives of preborn children. The laws range from Oklahoma’s “life begins at conception” law…

Whether talking about the family, politics, or culture, abortion has created division and continues to do so, Ryan Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis say.  In a leaked draft opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote, “Far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue,…