UC Law Dean: Roe v. Wade Reversal ‘Turns Back the Clock’ to When Women Were ‘Treated as Property’

The chancellor and dean of the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, California, reacted to the Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade on Friday by claiming that the ruling effectively "turns back the clock" to "when women did not have the right to vote" and were "treated as property," adding, "I tremble for my granddaughters." "Today's Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade is devastating on many levels," Dean David Faigman proclaimed in an open letter, before claiming that women not being able to as easily kill their unborn children means the clock has been turned back to another century. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) (Photo by Yasin Oztürk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) "This decision turns back the clock not just to 1973, but to a century when women did not have the right to vote and were, largely, treated as property," Faigman wrote. "I tremble for my granddaughters." The dean then argued that "those with religious objections to abortion do not have the right to impose them on others," before calling into question the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. "As a dean and professor of constitutional law, this opinion — and, indeed, the composition of the Court itself, which is a product of political… Read full this story

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