Abortion opponents try to regroup
| | Abortion opponents try to regroup after losing ground in Minnesota |
The 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upended a nationwide right to a legal abortion has reverberated differently in Minnesota, where all-Democratic statehouse control has translated into new laws ensuring abortion access.
Both abortion opponents and access advocates said abortion would again be a key issue at the Capitol and on the campaign trail this year. | |
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In small-town Wisconsin, looking for the roots of the modern American conspiracy theory. Long before QAnon, Pizzagate and the modern crop of politicians who will happily repeat apocalyptic talking points, there was the John Birch Society. And outside these cramped small-town offices is a national political landscape that the Society helped shape.
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