Since Dobbs' ruling, the pro-choice movement has really become animated. The share of Americans who promised that they would only vote for pro-choice candidates nearly doubled. In California and New York, 25,000 fetuses are still surgically aborted each month. To many on the left, Dobbs is now the animating force that Roe was on the right.
In the months since America’s Supreme Court gave states the power to ban abortions, those in support of the ruling have become more splintered. And with the help of leftist language, they are finding new recruits. A new discovery about the intelligence of a human-like species is changing how we understand evolution. And, a tribute to the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers.
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