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    Commentary: The wide importance of a narrow issue in Texas' SB 8 abortion ban

    by Harry Litman, Los Angeles Times Nov 09, 2021 3 minutes

    For many observers, the case the Supreme Court heard last week about Texas' new abortion law is a sideshow, a "relatively narrow," "merely procedural" footnote to the main event, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which will be argued in December and could overturn Roe v. Wade once and for all.

    But in fact, what happened Nov. 1 is far from a footnote to Roe.

    The Texas law, known as SB 8, presents bedrock questions that go well beyond the abortion context

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