It's impossible for any man, without the experience of pregnancy, to fully comprehend the unbearable trauma that Kate Cox just endured. At the same time, every one of us can appreciate the service she performed for America. Her suffering has viscerally exposed the harm to women and their families that has come from the Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org’n, the June 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
May we remember it next fall when we elect a president who will appoint the next Supreme Court justices. They will be people who either understand that harm or who sacrifice it on the altar of their religious beliefs and ideology.
The conflict between Cox and Texas embodies the larger battle for the soul of America.
Cox is the Texas woman who last week asked a trial court for permission to terminate her unviable pregnancy. She initially won, only to have the permission rescinded Friday by the state Supreme Court’s stay of the lower court ruling. Texas’s MAGA Attorney General Ken Paxton couldn’t wait to bring the court an emergency petition to force Cox to continue her doomed pregnancy.
Testing showed a fatal genetic abnormality in her........