The pro-life movement’s disastrous post-Roe pivot

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President Donald Trump might go down in history as the best thing that ever happened to legal abortion in the United States.

That’s because Trump, by muzzling pro-life leaders and championing states’ rights on abortion following his efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade, cultivated a political environment in which the practice of legal abortion has flourished. Two-and-a-half years following the fall of Roe, abortion rights have never been more protected in all but a handful of states, and public support for legal abortion has never been stronger.

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