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Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.
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So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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