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Roe blow? SCOTUS weighs abortion rights

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How Will the Court Survive?

It does depend a bit on how mississippi wins. Women would have one fewer week to have a protected abortion, 15 weeks, not 16. If roe is overturned completely, there will be less confusion but an immediate series of total abortion bands in at least 22 states. Forty per cent of women of trild bearing age would see their nearest clinic close. Just as sotemayor wondered, if the court will survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the constitution and its reading are just political acts. How will the court survive? It feels sereal that america seems to be on the cusp of just ripping apart 50 years of a constitutional right that

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