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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jack up in 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 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. A right that the right wing has been gutting for years at the state and federal level,

and that as a result is already effectively denied to so many in conservative states,

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