January 21, 2022
Good afternoon. Anti-abortion activists gathered today in Washington, DC, for what might be the last annual March for Life under Roe v. Wade. If you need a refresher, the Supreme Court cases Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey established a legal regime that based the legality of abortion around a fetus's viability—usually measured at 24 weeks into pregnancy. The two decisions invigorated an anti-abortion, right-wing movement that's been a mainstay of American politics since the 1970s. But now, after almost half a century of activism, the pro-life movement has the wind in its sails. The conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court seems poised to overturn the viability standard, either completely or functionally, and allow abortion bans or restrictions to come into effect in up to 26 states. The central question going forward is whether the anti-abortion movement will stop there. Last year, jurist, philosopher, and Notre Dame professor John Finnis published a piece in the right-wing intellectual journal First Things essentially arguing that overturning Roe should be seen only as a first step toward a doctrine of "fetal personhood," which would make abortion illegal everywhere in the country, even blue states unwilling to pass abortion restrictions. During oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson, the case expected to lead to Roe's overhaul, Justice Clarence Thomas seemed to hint that he had some sympathy for this view. Fetal personhood is controversial, even among some anti-abortion activists, but the right has begun to stake out increasingly extreme positions on all sorts of topics lately. If recent history has taught us anything, it's that radical proposals shouldn't be dismissed out of hand so much as considered a new potential mainstream. —Noah Y. Kim They suggest deeper involvement in the MAGA company by a controversial Chinese billionaire than previously acknowledged. BY DAN FRIEDMAN AND ALI BRELAND
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