Opinion: Supreme Court Abortion Pill Ruling Is No Victory for Women’s Rights

To borrow a phrase, the import of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision preserving access to an abortion pill is a “tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Handed down amidst the tempest over Justice Alito’s wife Martha-Ann’s habit of flying politically loaded flags at their houses while he rules on politically loaded cases, and further revelations of Justice Thomas friends-with-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars-worth-of-benefits relationship to billionaire conservative Harlan Crow, the case could be seen as an attempt to show the high court can still act with unity even on so-called “liberal causes.”

One could even speculate that Chief Justice Roberts managed to persuade his charges to throw a bone to the left in preparation for a yet-to-come decision on Trump’s plea for Presidential immunity that will at the very least punt any possibility that Special Counsel Jack Smith can try the Jan 6 case before the 2024 election.

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