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What Does Justice Roberts’s Ruling Mean for the Pro-Life Cause?

What Does Justice Roberts’s Ruling Mean for the Pro-Life Cause?

July 03, 2020 | by Erika Bachiochi

Pro-lifers have waited nearly a half century for the Court to repudiate its entire ill-founded abortion jurisprudence. The state’s interest is not in protecting some esoteric “potentiality of human life,” but in protecting the lives of actual vulnerable, unique, and utterly dependent human children. More still, women’s liberty is not best described by Casey’s paean to nihilism; rather, properly understood, women’s liberty is not in conflict with their unborn children at all.

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