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Melanie Stansbury: Last year, the Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs decision, which upended 50 years of settled law.

On the recordSeptember 12, 2023
Last year, the Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs decision, which upended 50 years of settled law.
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Melanie Stansbury
Democratic · New Mexico

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Stansbury critiques the Dobbs decision for reversing decades of legal precedent on reproductive rights.

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