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Near the end of his draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, however, Justice Samuel Alito gives a cynically upbeat prediction about its potential effects. Rather than forthrightly address the suffering the Court’s decision would cause, he casts it as a benevolent grant to women voters in individual states—one that would “return the issue of abortion to legislative bodies” and allow “women on both sides of the abortion issue to seek to affect the legislative process.” For emphasis, he reminds us that “women are not without electoral or political power.”
The entire opinion is of course full of b.s., but the pretense of doing women some kind of favor may be the single largest piece of bull shittery in the whole thing. What he says in the penultimate paragraph is much closer to the truth (bolding added by me):
The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each state from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey abrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.
"The people and their elected representatives" is a large and amorphous body, of which "women voters" are only one subset. Alito knows damn good and well that they are not the same thing, and he is absolutely FINE with that. The level of disingenuousness here is absolutely staggering. I can't think of a better response than this:
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