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Opinion Critics of Texas’s convoluted abortion law have a point. The solution is to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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September 6, 2021 at 8:16 a.m. EDT
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O. Carter Snead is a law professor at the University of Notre Dame and author of “What It Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics.”

How did we get to this place in our national discourse on abortion where, instead of arguing about how to care rightly for women, children and families, we are screaming about the legal technicalities of “pre-enforcement challenges” and “sovereign immunity”?