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| Kristen Doerer |
Joining the students—many of whom arrived in waves from Catholic high schools wearing matching beanies to be easily spotted by their chaperones—were white nationalists, white supremacists, and Christian nationalists eager to celebrate a win for the right-wing movement.
Earlier in the day, the court’s conservative justices signaled their disdain for abortion rights, rejecting a request from abortion providers to have a federal judge promptly address a Texas law that bans abortion at 6 weeks and deputizes private citizens to enforce it by allowing them to sue for up to $10,000. Looming over the rally, and abortion rights writ large, was the reality that the Supreme Court was, in the coming months, set to rule on another abortion case: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. At the heart of that case is a Mississippi law that bans abortion at 15 weeks—before fetal viability—going against the protections laid out in Roe, which recognizes that women have a constitutional right to an abortion in the first two trimesters of pregnancy, roughly 24 weeks.
Earlier in the day, the court’s conservative justices signaled their disdain for abortion rights, rejecting a request from abortion providers to have a federal judge promptly address a Texas law that bans abortion at 6 weeks and deputizes private citizens to enforce it by allowing them to sue for up to $10,000. Looming over the rally, and abortion rights writ large, was the reality that the Supreme Court was, in the coming months, set to rule on another abortion case: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. At the heart of that case is a Mississippi law that bans abortion at 15 weeks—before fetal viability—going against the protections laid out in Roe, which recognizes that women have a constitutional right to an abortion in the first two trimesters of pregnancy, roughly 24 weeks.
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