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Disdain for democracy

Democrats don’t want to move to the middle ground on abortion

16 July 2022

9:00 AM

16 July 2022

9:00 AM

Over the course of half a century Roe v Wade became sacralised. To question it was heresy meriting instant excommunication. Hence the shock the Supreme Court has overturned it, even though many experts had always questioned its legal soundness. Justice Byron White, dissenting in the original decision, called it ‘an exercise of raw judicial power’.

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