Carter Sherman

This is a movement that spent five decades working to overturn Roe v. Wade.

They stacked state legislatures with Republicans.

They helped create the modern day conservative majority on the Supreme Court.

They are very powerful and they are very, very committed.

I think at this point it's pretty clear that the modern day anti-abortion movement is an undemocratic one because they believe something that is not popular with the majority of Americans.

It is a minority that is now trying to enforce its rule on the rest of the country.

And it seems like the best way for them to do that will likely lie through the nine unelected justices on the Supreme Court.

They're not going to stop.

There are going to be more court cases.

And this movement is going to try very hard to convince the Trump administration or whatever Republican administration comes next to enforce the Comstock Act and to enact that nationwide abortion ban.

This is not the time for people to stop paying attention to abortion rights.

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