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Abortion addendum

When the anti-abortion movement succeeded in overturning Roe v. Wade, it simultaneously achieved its 50-year goal and left the movement rudderless. Republicans immediately started to struggle with the political ramifications of the Supreme Court’s decision to send the authority to regulate abortion law back to the states.

Democrats and their abortion-rights compatriots ran up huge victories, including in states such as Ohio. Strict abortion restrictions that didn’t include exceptions for rape and incest or that outlawed the procedure inside the 15-week window turned out to be far more unpopular than expected.