Taking a pause in the heat of the midterms to check on the health of children.
‘I refuse to let my new granddaughter have to fight for the rights generations have fought for and won, rights that she should be guaranteed.”
That was the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, on the night of May 2, 2022. The draft opinion in the Mississippi abortion case (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization) that would overturn Roe v. Wade at the Supreme Court had just been leaked, and this governor-grandmother’s response was to think about her newborn granddaughter in the context of abortion.
Hochul even slept on it and, the next day, doubled down: “And as a woman, this ...