We would all be better off if people would stop saying things like, but for Dobbs, Roe would still be good law as you read this sentence. In Casey, a Republican Supreme Court all but gutted Roe and allowed states to impose inane and cynical restrictions on abortions under the pretense that they were “reasonable” regulations of implementing the procedure. Mississippi originally brought the Dobbs case to have the Supreme Court bless one of those absurd laws that all but forbade abortion in the name of regulating it. Only when the Trump** triad was complete did Mississippi change its claim to ask for overturning Roe. The anti-abortion assault on Roe was a long-term project that as a practical matter succeeded in many states.
We would all be better off if people would stop saying things like, but for Dobbs, Roe would still be good law as you read this sentence. In Casey, a Republican Supreme Court all but gutted Roe and allowed states to impose inane and cynical restrictions on abortions under the pretense that they were “reasonable” regulations of implementing the procedure. Mississippi originally brought the Dobbs case to have the Supreme Court bless one of those absurd laws that all but forbade abortion in the name of regulating it. Only when the Trump** triad was complete did Mississippi change its claim to ask for overturning Roe. The anti-abortion assault on Roe was a long-term project that as a practical matter succeeded in many states.