Tag: Roe v Wade

  • Whilst We Wait for Roe…

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    Brendan Barry
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    to be overturned by the Supreme Court, as seems likely, states have been busy passing laws to both restrict and expand abortion access. This article from FiveThirtyEight describes the statutory activity with the use of a small multiple graphic I’ve screenshot below. Each little map represents an action that states could have taken recently, for…

  • The Potential Impacts of Throwing Out Roe v Wade

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    Brendan Barry
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    Spoiler: they are significant. Last night we had breaking news on two very big fronts. The first is that somebody inside the Supreme Court leaked an entire draft of the majority opinion, written by Justice Alito, to Politico. Leaks from inside the Supreme Court, whilst they do happen, are extremely rare. This alone is big…