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Welcome to the DIG, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Doing politics often requires that we try to make a virtue of necessity.

Today, we must ask whether the Supreme Court's striking down Roe v. Wade might create, or

at least help create, some sort of crisis of which we can take advantage.

Most concretely and horrifically, this ruling is of course guaranteed to further restrict

access to abortion.

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