There is no doubt that Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, decided four years ago this month, was a legal triumph. In overturning Roe v. Wade, it eliminated the constitutional right to abortion that the Supreme Court curiously discovered hiding in the 14th Amendment. Authority for regulating abortion thus departed from the judicial branch and returned to the people and their elected representatives.
In subsequent months, many states held ballot referenda and state legislatures passed laws that, depending on the state, either banned abortion outright, limited it within a certain gestational period, or enshrined abortion as a state constitutional right. Four years later, the abortion landscape resembles the U.S. electoral map: some red, some blue, and some purple. The people have spoken.
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