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After Roe, legal abortions in the United States dropped 6 Percent

  Abortion bans enacted after the fall of Roe really did reduce the number of abortions in the United States—despite what pro-abortion advocates said. According to a new report summarized by the New York Times, “In the first two months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe...
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  “Abortion-Rights Measures Prevail, Indicating a Post-Roe Backlash” —The Wall Street Journal, November 10, 2022 Well, yes. That would be about the size of it, as I reckon up events. The Dobbs decision, whereby the U.S. Supreme Court overthrew the tyranny and moral sterility...
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