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Commentary: The sky isn't falling on abortion rights. At least not completely

The right to an abortion had a series of boulders dropped on its head these last few weeks as extreme laws banning abortion were enacted in seven states.

But the sky has not fallen. Not completely.

Abortion will remain available in the United States, and that's true even if the new conservative justices - think of them as the bad boys of the Supreme Court - respond to these harsh new laws by eviscerating Roe vs. Wade.

The truth is, Roe was crippled long ago. In 1992, the Supreme

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