Law is Congress, not SCOTUS.

Christopher McHale
2 min readSep 22, 2020

RBG thought Roe was misdirection.

Roe v Wade is a mess. It’s built on the premise of privacy. It’s focus is too broad. And its weakness has caused decades of controversy and left us with the same fight over and over again.

The pro-life folks only serve to drive abortion into the back alleys in certain states. They will never ‘end abortion.’ Abortion is part of human culture for thousands of years. It’s not going anywhere.

States like New York and California will protect a woman’s right to choose. Just between those two states that means a clinic is within a two-hour drive of 60% of the population.

The place to fix this is in Congress. And as Justice Ginsberg said, the solution is in the narrow focus of the Equal Protection clause.

In a case she argued in front of the Supreme Court, Struck v. Secretary of Defense, Ginsberg for the ACLU brought a different perspective to women’s right to choose.

Captain Susan Struck Captain became pregnant while serving in Vietnam. The Air Force told her either get an abortion or leave the service. She told the Air Force that she didn’t want to get an abortion because abortion violated her Roman Catholic faith.

‘First, that the applicable Air Force regulations — if

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Christopher McHale

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