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How We Got to Roe v. Wade and Beyond

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Posted: Jun 30, 2022 12:01 AM

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WASHINGTON — In the good old days, when the liberals flourished, they undertook many grand designs. Some actually worked, for instance, the interstate highway system that now girdles America. The Cold War was another liberal idea. It worked, at least at first, before the liberals went wobbly and the conservatives and independents had to come in and finish the liberals’ work for them. Of course, the liberals’ days are now long gone as they have been replaced by fanatics who call themselves progressives or leftists or socialists. Yet one thing the liberals of yore have in common with the modern-day American left is the tendency to go too far. They take a good idea — or at least a plausible idea — and they go too far with it. Sometimes they even ram it down the public’s throat. The public does not always respond docilely.This week, we discovered how long some Americans will resist being bullied. The Supreme Court threw out a law rammed down their throats in 1973. Now abortion will be decided upon by the citizens of each state as it should have been decided back in 1973 during the Roe v. Wade arguments.In the years leading up to 1973 — in the ’50s and the ’60s and earl …

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