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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “Roe, I believe, would have been more acceptable as a judicial decision if it had not gone beyond a ruling on the extreme…”

On the recordOctober 31, 2017
Roe, I believe, would have been more acceptable as a judicial decision if it had not gone beyond a ruling on the extreme statute before the court.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
New York

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Ginsburg critiques the Roe v. Wade decision for its judicial overreach.

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