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Roe and Still More Hypocrisy

Dawn, you've hit the nail on the head.  What hypocrites!  To think that we would believe that they are against abortion just because they are trying to shut down abortion clinics.  I hadn't realized that their nefarious scheme is to increase the number of abortions by reducing the availability of contraceptives!  How could I have been so easily fooled?

Jack, I'm afraid you'll need to revise your theory that Republican leaders surreptitiously want to preserve Roe so that they can maintain a coalition that will dissolve if Roe is overturned.  In light of Dawn's argument, you will need to claim that Republican leaders pretend they want to overturn Roe, on behalf of a constituency that pretends that it wants to reduce the number of abortions.  Politics can be so confusing!