<p><em>by Scottie Hughes</em></p>
<p>It’s not often that I agree with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but she was right for more reasons than she probably realized when she said last year that the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in <i>Roe v. Wade</i> went “too far, too fast.” <i>Roe</i> protected almost all abortions from the democratic process and led to four decades in which, by even the most conservative estimates, 50 million American babies were aborted and pulled from their mother’s womb. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=2545" title="Permanent Link: The Ugly, Unknown Story Behind Roe v. Wade" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(676 words, estimated 2:42  mins reading time)</i></span></p>

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