But something good has been done, and there is an analogy here to the Emancipation Proclamation: It freed only the slaves held in states at war with the national government it did not free slaves held in border states such as Delaware. And yet it became clear that it was animated by an anti-slavery impulse, and that’s how it came to be understood. In the same way, this decision will be seen as a decision affirming life. That turbulence promises to rise now to new levels of enmity, until our people can regain some moral clarity on the taking of innocent life in the womb. To rephrase Churchill’s line, we might say that we are only at “the end of the beginning” in dealing with the turbulence that abortion has imparted to our political life for the past fifty years. The decision today in the Dobbs case, long awaited from the Court, can be appreciated-and savored-as a resounding first step.
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