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Michael Hiltzik

Michael Hiltzik: With a noxious family leave proposal, GOP pretends it's still pro-women despite antiabortion laws

Having achieved its long-held goal of eviscerating women's reproductive health rights, the Republican Party is now hard at work pretending that it's about to enter a new era of pro-women and pro-family policy.

A more transparently mendacious claim is hard to imagine.

Arguments are common that the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, overturning the half-century guarantee of abortion rights embodied in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, sets the stage for a torrent of pro-family GOP policies.

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