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Mary McNamara

Mary McNamara: Silent majority of Americans who support abortion rights just learned the danger of silence

Here we go again.

While the planet sizzles and Russia invades Eastern Europe, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to claim hundreds of lives every day and millions of Americans search in vain for a living wage and affordable housing, the cynical machinations of conservative politicians who've turned reproductive rights into a single-issue campaign tactic have in all likelihood forced this country to fight once more for women's most inalienable right: the ability to control what happens to their bodies.

A leaked Supreme Court document, obtained by Politico, appears to indicate a conservative court about to overturn Roe v. Wade — the case that for a half a century has protected a woman's right to choose a legal and safe abortion in every state.

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