This Is No Time For The Supreme Court To Go Wobbly On Abortion

When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, the United States and its Western allies, as well as the United Nations Security Council, demanded that Saddam Hussein withdraw from Kuwait. If he did not pull back from Kuwait, Iraq would be subject to economic sanctions and perhaps punitive war by a grand coalition of Western and Middle Eastern allies. At a critical point in the crisis, Margaret Thatcher famously told President George H.W. Bush not to go wobbly on this. The United States, she said, must stay strong and do the right thing. Iraq must withdraw or suffer the consequences. 

Forty-eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court decided the Roe v. Wade case by a 7-2 vote, the court now has an opportunity to reverse this execrable decision. The conservative majority on the Supreme Court must not go wobbly on this critical moment in American jurisprudence. The justices, too, must do the right thing and strike down Roe v. Wade as unconstitutional.