Americans Are Set to Lose the Right to Abortion. Why Aren’t Democrats Raising Hell?

The Supreme Court is expected to overturn Roe v. Wade next month, but Democrats are asleep at the wheel.

Reproductive rights activists protest as oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization case are held on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. The case considers the constitutionality of Mississippi’s restrictive ban on abortion after 15 weeks. (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

When it seems all but inevitable that the Supreme Court will overturn one of its most consequential rulings in a matter of weeks, shouldn’t the one political party that professes to be against that expected ruling start raising hell already?

In June, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on a case concerning Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban. Given the court’s conservative majority, it is expected the decision will end up overturning, or at the very least, significantly gutting the national protections for abortion rights that have been in place for nearly 50 years. Such scenarios would result in abortion immediately becoming illegal in more than two dozen states.

Leading up to the expected decision, Republicans in states like Oklahoma, Florida, Arizona, and Texas have passed bans on the procedure. And in states such as Missouri, they not only mirror legislation passed by Texas that outlaws nearly all abortions through the use of a citizen-enforced ban, but up the ante. Indeed, Missouri’s Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman has proposed legislation that would not only allow citizens to sue…