Roe v. Wade has spread scientific illiteracy about when life begins

Published January 18, 2019 5:00am ET



Ever since Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, it has become increasingly clear that there is a new, distorted narrative that has taken hold among the women’s movement: As Roe goes, so goes womankind.

For some, this notion is a matter of willful ignorance, used to justify a social and political agenda, or to prop up the Roe economy. For a growing number of people, it is bona fide ignorance due to a fake science conjured up by that monumental Supreme Court ruling.

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