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Jesse Jackson is correct—the leaked opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization will be the female version of Dred Scott where the Supreme Court declared that African-Americans were property and could not be persons according to the intent of the Constitution.  Yet Dobbs, while incredulous, was entirely predictable and it also speaks to the misguided More

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