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Finding a Sane Middle Ground on Abortion, Guns?

Finding a Sane Middle Ground on Abortion, Guns?

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Jim Buie
Mar 02, 2021
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Finding a Sane Middle Ground on Abortion, Guns?
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In the strange dichotomy of US political zealotry since the 1970s, observed historian Jill Lepore in These Truths, either abortion means murder and guns mean freedom or guns mean murder and abortion mean freedom. This occurred because of social movements that have grown since the 1970s and have become primarily knee-jerk reactionaries opposed to common …

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