Whole Women’s Victory — or Not?

Facts about women's health won out over fiction in June, when the Supreme Court struck down Texas regulations aimed at closing abortion clinics. Will facts about human development be adequate to overcome fiction in the next front in the abortion wars: fetal pain? Facts about women’s health won out over fiction in June, when the Supreme Court, even without examining the Texas legislature’s motives, struck down its regulations aimed at closing abortion clinics. Now the question is whether facts about human development will be adequate on their own to overcome fiction in what will probably be the next front in the abortion wars: fetal pain. Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt is a turning point in Supreme Court jurisprudence, not just because it turned the tide in the face of 300-plus abortion restrictions passed by state legislatures in the past 5 years alone. 1 It . . .