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Eric Zorn: Who would be punished for abortion in a post-Roe America?

The discovery of right-wing provocateur Kevin Williamson's wistful 2014 musings - that abortion should be "treated like regular homicide under the criminal code" with punishments "up to and including hanging" for women who obtain them - got him fired from his new job at The Atlantic and again put abortion-rights opponents on the defensive.

No, no, no, they said, reiterating the protestations they offered in March 2016 when then-candidate Donald Trump declared, "There has to be some form of punishment" for women who

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