40th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade Decision Legalizing Abortion

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I ask because over the last several decades, despite Americans' nominal support of abortion rights (I suspect mostly in the abstract), it seems as if abortion throughout most of the country is legal in name only.  

This is in stark contrast to the progress abortion rights advocates were making in making access to abortion services legal and safe up through 1973, even in the South. 

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How could they possibly have lost more than they gained? Abortion has been legal nationwide for 40 years.

All the momentum since the decision has been on the side of those seeking to restrict access as opposed to expanding it -which was not the case before.   Abortion may be legal -but it has gotten to the point that it has become merely technically legal for most of the country.  On the ground, it is as if the decision was never rendered.   

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have written the 1973 decision differently, it seems:

Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade too sweeping, gave abortion opponents target to ‘aim at relentlessly’

By Associated Press, Published: May 11 | Updated: Sunday, May 12, 1:39 PM

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