For the conservatives, the most consequential shift would come in flipping the decision on Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) and upholding the federal ban on partial-birth abortion. Either one of the Ediths would guarantee that outcome; and in my own reckoning, such a decision on partial-birth abortion would virtually bring to an end the Roe v. Wade regime. For it would send up a signal to legislatures throughout the country that the Court was now open for business in sustaining many varieties of restriction on abortion.
Exactly.
And this is how we are going to win this issue. Overturning Roe v. Wade will not do one thing to limit the number of abortions in this country. Empowering state legislatures to do what they are designed to do will have a far greater impact.