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Pro-Life Push to Overturn Roe v. Wade in the Grand Tradition of American Democracy

Pro-Life Push to Overturn Roe v. Wade in the Grand Tradition of American Democracy
Pro-life activists demonstrate on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 27, 2016. Pete Marovich/Getty Images
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What’s more democratic: the Supreme Court imposing a controversial abortion right on the entire country or the Supreme Court allowing that contentious issue to be debated and ultimately decided by the people through their elected representatives or voter referenda? Obviously, the people deciding for themselves is the more democratic option.

Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith
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Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
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