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The "vote blue" strategy for saving Roe has failed

Democratic loyalists need to reckon with their defeat.

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Carl Beijer
Sep 02, 2021
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The Supreme Court has effectively overturned Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established a woman’s right to abortion. Predictably, there is a lot of finger-pointing going on in the wake of this decision — often at people who refused to vote for Democrats, since Dems might have appointed pro-choice Supreme Court Justices. I do not think that this is a…

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