This editorial board long has supported a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion. We reaffirm that support here, grounded in our belief in a woman’s autonomy over her own body and our long-standing commitment to individual freedoms, even as we lament the Monday night leak of a draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court, a further erosion of the fabric of the United States essential to a functioning democracy.
Contrary to what you likely are reading elsewhere, both of those positions can be held together.
And to focus your reading of this or any other piece of commentary only on where the greater emphasis lies, whether the bigger outrage is the leak or the opinion, is to miss the most profound lesson of the darkest day for U.S. democracy at least since Jan. 6, 2021.
