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CLEVELAND -- In the same week that marked the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v.

Jackson Women’s Health decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the high court moved to in Idaho when the mother’s health is at risk, reversing an earlier ruling and affirming a Biden administration objection to a blanket state law that almost totally bans abortions. This followed by two weeks a 9-0 Supreme Court decision that maintained , the so-called abortion pill that can end a pregnancy in the first trimester.



This is significant because Democrats have been using the June 24 Dobbs anniversary as a launching pad for their ongoing campaign to maintain abortion as an election issue. These two decisions that went in favor of abortion rights, one would think, will make it problematic for them to continue trying to frighten independents and others into believing that Republican election victories will threaten access to legal abortions. It’s important to note that these cases were decided on the law – as was Dobbs – not on the justices’ personal opinions on abortion.

But that has been the Democratic script for the last two years, after the Dobbs decision reversed the Roe ruling that 49 years earlier had tortured a nonexistent right to abortion out of the Constitution. Democrats warned darkly that it signaled a return to back-alley abortions and coat-hangers. What it signaled, however, was a return of decisions on abortion access to where they belonged: the people an.

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