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Why are We Still Obsessed with Roe v Wade?

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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The Roe, Not Roe Dichotomy Is There

The popular discourse around Roe and Casey was to render it kind of cartoonish, right? A simple binary, Roe, not Roe, you know, abortion, not abortion. And by doing that, we collectively made it easier for Justice Alito to operate in a too simple cartoonish binary of Roe,NotRoe. So I think the history is helpful in letting us see that somehow like, we've just been way too deferential to the Supreme Court," he says.

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