Welp, they’re debatin’ babies up at the Supreme Court again.

On Tuesday, SCOTUS heard oral arguments regarding the “morning after pill,” mifepristone. The drug was approved for use in 2000, and is now used in half of all abortions. The case before the Court is about limiting the ability of patients to receive the drug through the mail.

Not surprisingly, the plaintiffs in this case are a thinly-veiled Christian nationalist project called The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, founded in 2022. Their website has no information about the group’s members, but I’m guessing their footwear of choice is “sensible.”

I’m not going to debate the legal merits of the case, since my legal training extends no further than playing a bowling alley manager on the early-aughts NBC show, Ed, about a lawyer who buys a bowling alley. What I will argue, instead, is that the plaintiffs are 100 percent correct to bring this case.

If you believe, as The Alliance and their allies do, that human life begins at fertilization, then I think you’re morally obligated to do anything and everything you can to prevent those lives from being terminated, even if the science, public opinion, and the law don’t agree with you. In fact, there is no length that is too far for you to travel, because protecting a human life is, prima facie, the highest possible priority.

Filing legally dubious lawsuits in friendly courts is one of the least offensive tactics at their disposal. It’s also one of the most effective tactics, now that the 50-year project of overturning Roe is at an end, thanks to........

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