In revisiting Roe, science should trump stare decisis

Published January 18, 2019 1:00pm ET



If you’ve attended the March for Life a few times, things can begin to feel the same year after year. The weather is usually bad, the media is usually absent, and Roe v. Wade is still, to this nation’s great shame, still the law of the land.

But this year — and we know this has been said in the past — things could be different. It seems that we have, for the first time since Roe, a conservative majority on the Supreme Court. With the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to replace Anthony Kennedy, who upheld most of Roe with his morally stunted, constitutionally illiterate, and legally vacant opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, there’s a chance Roe could be overturned.

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