Herding ourselves over politics after Roe will only make things worse for us

Many ominous predictions for the future of the nation have been made in response to the Supreme Court's decision to eliminate a constitutional right to an abortion. They worry that America will resemble "The Handmaid's Tale," a 1985 book by Margaret Atwood in which a slave class of women are made to produce children for a ruling class, which is, of course, the most vivid.

One senator offered a direct and pragmatic o....