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Anti-abortion views first entered presidential politics in 1980, seven years after Roe v. Wade, when Ronald Reagan embraced a “family values” agenda to run against Jimmy Carter. They’ve been the stock-in-trade of Republican candidates ever since, and, this year, a pro-life group called the Susan B. Anthony (SBA) List has instituted an early gut-check, a “Pro-Life Presidential Leadership Pledge.” . . . But the news isn’t only that most of the candidates signed the pledge; it’s what they’ve signed. The SBA pledge signifies a radical escalation of the war against abortion by aiming to mobilize all three branches of government to subvert and overturn Roe. The New Republic

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