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You know, Amani, I was just reminiscing the other day.

And I mean, do you remember the halcyon days when our biggest complaints around abortion rights were things like the quote unquote, woman's right to no act? Yeah, yeah. know act those you know that legislation that would

impose a whole host of paternalistic conditions on people seeking abortions yeah and then there

were the trap laws you remember the trap laws remember how outrage we used to get about trap laws? It was so adorable. And those mandatory

ultrasound laws, oh, we used to get so mad about those too. So mad. So mad. So mad. Well, today,

folks, we are taking a trip to the Wayback Machine, courtesy of North Carolina Republicans, who passed a secret

bill that restricts abortion and could cause chaos when it comes to abortion access in the

South and Southeast.

A secret bill, they didn't even bother to hold a hearing on because, get this, you'll love

this.

They said they already knew what Democrats' response to the bill

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