If you tuned in to cable news or Twitter on Monday night or Tuesday, half of the talk, it seemed, was reporters, television hosts, and their more openly liberal interlocutors lamenting the impending loss of Roe v. Wade. Supposedly straight news types transposed their own views to public opinion, stating that the public supports Roe.

This is false. Roe is roundly castigated by those who know it, and if it’s supported by the public, that’s only because the public doesn’t know what it does.