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Editorial: The impractical end of Roe v. Wade

Abortion-rights activist react after the announcement to the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, in Washington, DC.

In 1973, the United States Supreme Court found constitutional protection for a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion, her autonomous personhood deserving to be free from excessive governmental restriction.

Some 49 years later, that same illustrious body, albeit of different human constitution, has changed its mind.

No such protection should have been granted, it found Friday, meaning that the states are now free to enact their own regulations of the practice. A dozen or so

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