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jmowreader

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8. Number 2 is what's happening

Reply to Mr.Bill (Reply #6)

Tue Aug 27, 2019, 03:48 PM

Aug 2019

They have a big problem, though: the Supreme Court has always been hesitant to reverse precedent.

Worse for the antis: when the Court has overturned a Fourteenth Amendment case, which Roe is, they've always gone in the direction of more freedom not less, and in Planned Parenthood v Casey they already upheld a woman's right to obtain abortion services.

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