Last week SCOTUS handed down its decision in the Dobbs case and changed the course of American legal, moral, and, well, general history, by striking down Roe v. Wade, ending the nation-wide regime of abortion-on-demand across virtually all nine months of a pregnancy. There was much justified jubilation, as well as frustrated weeping, regret, sorrow, fear, and the full panoply of human emotion that such a movement towards costly justice could be expected to engender from advocates and foes.
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Derek Rishmawy
Derek Rishmawy (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is the RUF campus minister at the University of California-Irvine. He contributes to Mere Orthodoxy, Christianity Today, and The Gospel Coalition, and writes at his own blog, Reformedish. He also co-hosts Mere Fidelity and is host of the “What Christians Believe’ Podcast at byFaith. You can follow him on Twitter @dzrishmawy.
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