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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The End of Roe v. Wade, One Year Later

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

New polling from Gallup, a year after the Supreme Court returned abortion to the political process in the Dobbs case, shows how public attitudes have and haven't changed. Plus, as GOP presidential candidates try to find their footing, Tim Scott and Mike Pence take up abortion at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:39.3

One year after the Supreme Court struck down, Roe v Wade have events vindicated that five for majority.

0:46.5

Plus former Vice President Mike Pence calls on Republican 2024 candidates to back a 15 week national abortion ban.

0:54.8

Welcome on Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:57.6

We are joined today by my colleagues columnist Kim Strassel and editorial board member Kate Vatchelder O'Dell.

1:05.6

Today, the Supreme Court handed down another set of opinions, but none of the blockbuster ones

1:11.8

that the public or at least I have been waiting for cases on student loans, racial preferences in college admissions.

1:19.6

But that will give us a chance here to reflect on one year after the decision in dobs.

1:25.6

That was the case striking down Roe v Wade and was decided June 24, 2022.

1:31.6

So the anniversary is tomorrow.

1:34.6

And let me read just a piece of the majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito.

1:40.8

He wrote, we do not pretend to know how our political system or society will respond.

1:46.1

But he said we can only do our job, which is to interpret the law.

1:50.1

And Kim, he went on to explain that the Supreme Court was getting out of this area and handing abortion back to the political process.

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