NPR 2009-03-30

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Roe versus Wade is one of the best known Supreme Court cases. The issue is whether a healthy woman has a right to end a pregnancy through an abortion. In Texas in the early 1970s, state law barred such operations. A 22-year-old pregnant woman living

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