“In case you missed the abortion argument, here’s about how it went”: Columnist Alexandra Petri has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The Abortion I Didn’t Have: I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself.” Merritt Tierce will have this article in this Sunday’s edition of The New York Times Magazine.

“How to Get Away With Manslaughter: The Supreme Court’s McGirt ruling opened a bizarre loophole for Oklahoma criminals.” This editorial will appear in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“State Court Expansion Is Becoming More Common — Especially When Republicans Are In Charge; Proposals to expand the U.S. Supreme Court often get dismissed as ‘radical’ or ‘unprecedented’; In many states, though, they are politics as usual”: Billy Corriher has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Future of abortion rights depends on a Supreme Court for which compromise seems elusive”: Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow have this front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“What Roe Could Take Down With It: The logic being used against Roe could weaken the legal foundations of many rights Americans value deeply.” Law professor Kimberly Wehle has this essay online at The Atlantic.

Also online at The Atlantic, Adam Serwer has an essay titled “Republicans Hope Their Assault on Democracy Will Stop a Post-Roe Backlash; Conservatives on the Supreme Court have engineered a system that allows half the country’s population to be stripped of a fundamental constitutional right.”

“The stench at the Supreme Court: The science on which Roe v. Wade was based has not changed; What has changed is the court’s membership and their originalist interpretation of the Constitution.” Nancy Gertner has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Boston Globe.

And online at The Hill, law professor Jonathan Turley has an essay titled “What’s that you smell in the Supreme Court?“

“Amy Coney Barrett’s Adoption Myths :’They’re co-opting our lives and our stories.'” Irin Carmon has this post at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.

“The Supreme Court Looks Ready to Overturn Roe v. Wade; Lawyers and Justices on both sides — with the possible exception of John Roberts — appeared to be past pretending that the Mississippi case is about anything less”: Amy Davidson Sorkin has this post online at The New Yorker.

“Roe ‘settled’ law? Justices’ earlier assurances now in doubt.” Lisa Mascaro of The Associated Press has this report.

“Abortion: The Voice of the Ambivalent Majority.” Columnist David Brooks has this essay in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“I Was Adopted. I Know the Trauma It Can Inflict.” Online at The New York Times, Elizabeth Spiers has a guest essay that begins, “On Wednesday, as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments from state attorneys seeking to uphold Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, Justice Amy Coney Barrett kept getting at one question: Why was abortion necessary, when women who do not want to be mothers can simply give their babies up for adoption?”

“The Supreme Court Gaslights Its Way to the End of Roe”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.