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The Fight Over Abortion And The Supreme Court
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The pro-life and pro-choice forces are devoted to stopping the murder of unborn children and maintaining individual liberty, respectively. The principle of stare decisis weakens in cases like this involving the interpretation of the Constitution, which means that an egregiously wrong interpretation must be corrected at some point.
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