Because let’s be clear, that’s what this decision was—the decimation not just of reproductive rights but of women’s citizenship. Overturning Roe was just a means to that end. The powerful coalition of extremist organizations[*2] that spent decades working toward this moment weren’t really interested in abortion, but in what ending abortion meant for their broader goals: a return to forced traditional gender roles, a forced gender binary, a culture and politics ruled by white supremacist patriarchy where women had no power, and the punishment of anyone who deviates from it all.
