Why are the Democrats dithering on abortion rights?
Three weeks after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade, they still have no clear direction
There is lofty talk these days, including by the Supreme Court majority that struck down the right to abortion, about how individual states, those laboratories of democracy, can now sort out the right answer to this vexing moral question. “I think the democratic process is going to work out at the state level,” said Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, recently.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Democrats dither dangerously on abortion”
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