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Roe v. Wade is struck down.

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The Supreme Court Is Not a Check on Majority Power

The prochoice movement failed to move the ball legislatively, says Isaac. The court is supposed to be a check on majority power and that's what it was in 19 73 when it preserved the right to abortion. Many conservatives are now celebrating the state's ability to intervene in the most intimate and private of family sues while the left is clamoring for a world where the government would just stay the hell out of it. It truly feels to me like the po life movement is the dog that caught the car,. And there will not just be tens of thousands of mothers in deep red states needing support that doesn't yet exist - dozens of radical legislators working to pass evermore extreme laws

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