The Next Steps to Protect Abortion Rights

Larry Benjamin
4 min readMay 26, 2022

It’s almost a certainty that Roe v. Wade will be overturned. With the release of the draft decision, it would be suicidal for any of the conservative justices who signed off on it to change their minds, as every anti-abortion fanatic in the country will know who they are, and the so-called “pro-life” movement has demonstrated many times that they are capable of deadly violence. At the same time, there’s virtually no chance of a nationwide ban being enacted any time soon, even if the Republicans take control of both houses of Congress after the midterms (and with this decision, that…

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Larry Benjamin

Grew up in Los Angeles, BA in English Literature from UCLA, Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa, 30 year career in labor law enforcement