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Clair Wills’s memoir is a timely warning that sexual morality can be enforced only with violence.

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A half-century before Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that family life is off limits from government interference. Could that case provide a way to protect both IVF and abortion?

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Using data from the CDC, the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the FBI, researchers estimate that 519,981 rapes occurred in states with bans since Roe was overturned. They project 64,565 pregnancies resulted from rape.

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If we want to build a strong, safe world for pregnant people and our families, let’s start with a floor we can all stand on. Policies that claim to keep the government out of abortion are being written to criminalize abortion later in pregnancy.