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    George Skelton: California has long been a voice for abortion rights. But there’s a political ring to it

    by George Skelton, Los Angeles Times Jun 23, 2022 3 minutes
    Abortion rights supporters clash with Bible Believers, a group of anti-abortion activist street preachers, at one of the Bans Off Our Bodies abortion rights protests being held across the nation, near City Hall in Los Angeles, California, on May 14, 2022.

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — People often ask me how things have changed at California’s Capitol over the last 60 years. One answer: Politics today is a lot more knee-jerk partisan.

    A striking example is abortion.

    That’s true of many issues. More legislators used to think for themselves and not be so subservient to party dogma.

    Now, abortion is again front and center after news broke last month that the U.S. Supreme Court was on the verge of overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized pregnancy terminations nationwide.

    In Sacramento, there has

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