Abortion The Roe misdirection By Gregg Nunziata May 19, 2022 11:00 PM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Abortion The Roe misdirection By Gregg Nunziata May 19, 2022 11:00 PM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print If the leaked draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito in the Supreme Court case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization prevails, as expected, these are the last days of the constitutional right to abortion announced by Roe v. Wade in 1973. Yet to hear Democrats tell it, we are in the last days of several basic rights and stand on the precipice of the republic’s undoing. “If it becomes the law and if what is written is what remains,” President Joe Biden intoned, “it goes far beyond the concern of whether or not there is the right to choose, and into other basic rights.” Such as? In the Biden administration’s brief in support of those challenging the anti-abortion law at the center of the case, it mentioned “the rights to same-sex intimacy and marriage, to interracial marriage and to use contraception.” Vice President Kamala Harris told the pro-choice group EMILY’s List that the fall of Roe would mean that “anyone in our country may face a future where the government can interfere with their personal decisions,” specifically invoking Supreme Court cases on contraception and gay marriage. The reality is that such worries are far-fetched at best, and the discussion highlights...