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Nicholas Goldberg: 50 years after Roe, the fight for abortion rights is starting over

This should've been a moment for celebration. A time to celebrate the continuing expansion of American rights, and especially a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her future. A time to celebrate the Constitution as not merely the legalistic, literal words laid down by the 18th century founders, but rather as a dynamic document that can speak to society's 21st century ...
Doctors from across the U.S. come together at an action to protect abortion access and demand an end to the current and future criminalization of providers who perform lifesaving abortion care outside the U.S. Capitol building on Nov. 3, 2022, in Washington, DC.

This should've been a moment for celebration.

A time to celebrate the continuing expansion of American rights, and especially a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her future. A time to celebrate the Constitution as not merely the legalistic, literal words laid down by the 18th century founders, but rather as a dynamic document that can speak to society's 21st century needs.

But no. On the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision declaring abortion to be a woman's constitutional right, when there should have been dancing in the streets, we

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