Ellen Goodman: the pretense is finally over
Ellen Goodman comments in the Boston Globe on South Dakota legislation restricting abortions.TWO MONTHS AGO, when all eyes were on Samuel Alito's confirmation hearings, I traveled 1,300 miles west to Sioux Falls, S.D. I went to see the state where the right to abortion had already come down to this: one clinic, one day a week, one doctor. The women in the waiting room had come from all over the state. The doctor had flown in from Minneapolis.South Dakota had become a legislative laboratory for abortion restrictions. It had followed the blueprint that Alito himself had laid out in the 1980s. This was a strategy to add so many restrictions -- one law at a time -- that Roe v. Wade would collapse without ever being overturned. ...
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