Back-Alley Abortion Never Ended

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Back- Alley Abortion Never Ended By James Taranto afety is one of the most potent defenses of Roe v, Wade, the 1973 u.s. Supreme Court decision that imposed a national policy of abortion on demand. Women had abortions even before it was legal to do so, the argument goes, but restrictive laws forced them to go to back-aDey quacks. In this view, the story ofl