What to expect when you’re expecting an abortion pill argument
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When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade back in 2022, it indicated that abortion was an issue to be relegated to the states. Instead, it has blown up American politics, firing up voters and leading to conflicting lower court rulings. Post columnists Ruth Marcus, Alexandra Petri and Amanda Ripley discuss how it feels to be a woman in the post-Dobbs world and what’s at stake when abortion returns to the Supreme Court this term as the justices hear a case on access to mifepristone.
Ruth Marcus: Even after abortion pill ruling, reproductive rights remain in the balance
Alexandra Petri: I don’t know how to write about all that hasn’t happened since the fall of Roe
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