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The problem with Billie Eilish’s Roe v. Wade intervention

25 June 2022

6:59 PM

25 June 2022

6:59 PM

The words ‘dark day’ went viral yesterday — in response to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in America. Women and men the world over took to social media and the airwaves to say that the news was a great leap backwards for humanity.

Almost nobody bothered to read the court’s opinion, of course, or even beyond the first two paragraphs of any news story on this actually rather complicated legal subject.

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