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Roe’s Demise: What does it mean—and what’s next?

Forty-nine years after it was decided, Roe v. Wade is gone. This morning, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a majority of the Supreme Court decided that “The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion.” Roe has been centrally “responsible for the emergence of the conservative legal movement”; conservatives, at least for now, have won that fight.

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