On the Irony of RBG’s Legacy

RBG was, and remains, a feminist icon. It is supremely ironic, therefore, that no woman, and nobody on the left, is more responsible for the demise of Roe than she was.

This happened in two ways. First, and most obviously, she declined to retire at a time when Obama could have appointed her successor. Second, her critique of the reasoning behind Roe, if not its result, weakened its intellectual foundations and emboldened the right. It had plenty of merit, but disastrous results.