Pro-life austerity: good luck with that

Waiting on a Republican family policy agenda? Don’t hold your breath

Phoebe Maltz Bovy is the author of "The Perils of 'Privilege.'" She has a newsletter, Close-reading the reruns, and is co-host of the Feminine Chaos podcast.

In the New York Times, conservative columnist Ross Douthat reminds us that the Court overturning Roe v. Wade did not make abortion illegal in the United States, but merely opened up the legal possib…