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Overruling Roe may not be conservatives' best strategy – Brown v. Board of Education shows how Supreme Court can uphold precedent while gutting its meaning

  • Written by Michael J. Saks, Regents Professor, Arizona State University
imageOverturn Roe? They might not have to.Oliver Douliery/AFP via Getty Images

Tens of thousands of anti-abortion protesters are expected to descend on Washington on Jan. 21, 2022, for the March for Life rally – as they have done annually since 1974 to protest the Roe v. Wade ruling of the previous year.

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