kontextmaschine:

The new abortion rights spokesmen: Dudes, dads, and plumbers

by deconstitutionalizing abortion, Dobbs has returned it to the world of electoral politics where women’s rights matter less than men’s votes, and to the extent the political culture reflexes to preserve abortion access it will do so by becoming less feminist and more bro-y

Much like how when after this Court eviscerates racial civil rights constitutional law, it will retrospectively be taken as “training wheels” for groups that were only then entering positions from which they would later act to assert their interests through regular politics