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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

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They say Roe and Casey are not worthy of the deference that the court typically affords to its prior decisions. To the contrary, in the year it was ratified (1868), thirty of thirty-seven states explicitly criminalized abortion by statute.” Moreover, they write, “abortion was a longstanding common-law crime.”.