Overturning Roe Vs. Wade is not a Victory for Democracy.

I’ve been seeing articles recently (by Ross Douhat and Cauf Skiviers among others) claiming that overturning Roe versus Wade is a victory for democracy because it removes the decision from the courts and puts it into the hands of legislatures. The problem with this reasoning is that you don’t give people more freedom when you give governments more freedom. Overturning Roe gives government the right to take freedoms away from people. That does not give more freedom to people, it makes them less free. By this reasoning, Stalinist Russia was the most free society of all time, because the Government could do whatever it wanted.

Our situation appears to be slightly different from Stalinist Russia because our Governments are democratically elected, more or less. But we have a Bill of Rights which is designed to protect each citizen from having their rights taken away by the government, even if the majority votes to do so. We would not be more free if we abolished the Bill of Rights, and permitted an elected government to pass legislation that forbid people to marry whom they choose, or put certain minorities in concentration camps. We will not be more free if the state and federal government is given the power to force women to give birth to unwanted children.