The End of Roe v. Wade Was Easy to See Coming

The right to legal abortion in all 50 states has been in crisis for years. Why weren’t we panicking?

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
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8 min readJul 3, 2018

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Last Wednesday night — a few hours after Justice Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, a few hours after the overturn of Roe v. Wade had become inevitable — I realized that my relationship to my body…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Writer for

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.