Dobbs was only the end of the beginning

This summer will see the four-year anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. There, the court consigned the “egregiously wrong” Roe v. Wade to the dustbin of history. This outcome was a big win for the pro-life movement, and was worthy of celebration. 

Five decades prior, the court erred by removing the issue of abortion from the political arena, ruling that the Constitution required abortion to be legal everywhere and always. This forced pro-lifers to wage a fifty-year struggle to finally get the Supreme Court to recognize the error of its ways. Few political movements have needed to be so resilient in order to succeed against such intractable forces.

But, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, Dobbs was not the end. It was not even the beginning of the end. Rather, it was the end of the beginning. The victory in