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Justice Department Passes On Opportunity To Make Novel Abortion Rights Argument

Planned Parenthood clinic (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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March 3, 2023 5:23 p.m.

The Justice Department declined to take advantage of a judge’s invitation to find a new path to the right to abortion Friday, instead resting its case on the Constitution’s Commerce Clause. 

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