Hearing on Abortion After Dobbs Shows Democrats’ Extremism
26th April 2023
The Supreme Court is activist, abortion is healthcare, pro-life laws are confusing, and abortion drugs are safe.
Those were the talking points from Democratic senators and their witnesses at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing held on April 26 titled “The Assault on Reproductive Rights in a Post-Dobbs America.”
Committee chairman Richard Durbin, D-Ill., opened by criticizing the Supreme Court’s “judicial activism” in overruling Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which invented and affirmed a constitutional right to abortion.
No one attempted, or even suggested, that Roe had properly interpreted the Constitution or explained how correcting such a grave error could be called “activist.”
Instead, it was clear that, to Durbin, an “activist” decision was simply one he didn’t like.