Editor’s Note: Abortion and the Board

There have been few political issues in the last 50 years that have engendered as much anger, emotion and division among the American public as abortion. No matter what position one takes, at least half of the country will oppose it, some with vitriolic intensity. One benefit of working in the corporate governance space has been the avoidance of this issue and its consequent pitfalls — at least until now.

This June, in a much-anticipated ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dobbs case rejected the federal protection of abortion proscribed by an earlier Court in Roe v. Wade — a 50-year precedent — and returned the issue to the individual states to resolve. The public response was predictably split — some rejoicing over the ruling, others reviling it. This was no surprise given abortion’s long-standing controversy.

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Charles Elson

Charles Elson is executive editor-at-large of Directors & Boards.


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