Roe versus Wade may be on the shopping block after oral arguments at the Supreme Court and Joe Biden's team prepares for more COVID authoritarianism.

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C-Sight for details. Okay, so yesterday was oral argument time at the Supreme Court over a brand-new

abortion law in Mississippi that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which, by the way,

is still a more lenient law than the laws of places like France. The United States has some of the most liberal abortion laws on planet Earth.

So lest anybody tell you that we are puritanical about abortion, precisely the opposite.

Thanks to Supreme Court precedent, we are one of the most liberal countries on planet Earth

as far as when a woman is allowed to kill the baby within her womb, along with her doctors.

The Mississippi case would go further.

Mississippi has sort of a backup law.

They say, well, if you uphold this 15-week ban, then we'd like to go to six weeks.

There are a bunch of issues at play in the Mississippi case.

In order to understand them, we have to go through the legal precedent.

But to understand why this is such a controversy in the United States, of course,

you have to understand the role that abortion plays in the left pantheon of

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