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In June 2022, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, effectively returning the abortion issue back to the states. For nearly a half-century before, the country had lived under Roe v. Wade. Overturning Roe (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) shifted the cultural winds in welcome but unexpected ways. One of the pro-life movement’s main goals finally became a reality. And abortion proponents in the Democratic Party angrily vowed revenge.