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political reports. The U. S. Supreme Court

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is poised to strike down the landmark roe versus wade

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decision which protects women's rights to abortion. Political says

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it's seen a draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito

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, which has preliminary support from four other Republican appointed

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justices. The nine member court is scheduled to rule

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in the case by july. Let's get more now

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with our reporter Bruce Einhorn Bruce. First of all

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, this is an earthquake when it comes to civil

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society. How divisive will this be in the US

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? Well, abortion of course is is one of

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the most hot button issues in the U. S

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. Culture wars. There is strong support in the

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U. S. Polls show for abortion rights.

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Um So a majority of americans do not want to

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see roe v wade overturned. That said that the

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base of the Republican Party is very very supportive of

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getting rid of abortion rights. So this will likely

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just intensify the culture wars that we already have raging

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in the U. S. So Bruce, what

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does this mean for the midterm elections? Well,

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we already know that republican voters were extremely motivated to

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vote in the midterms. Typically that's what happens the

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out of the outer Party, the out of power

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party typically does very well in midterms. The key

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thing that could happen here is that suddenly now they're

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going to be a lot of Democratic voters potentially who

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are very concerned about abortion rights who will be motivated

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to vote, who might not have been in the

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past. So this does have the potential to really

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make the democrats suddenly more competitive in midterms, that

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otherwise we're looking pretty down for them Bruce why was

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this leaked? It feels like it's very unusual to

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actually get a leak in this kind of decision.

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It's extraordinary to have a leak like this. It

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just does not happen. The Supreme Court just doesn't

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leak. Um and you know, we should we

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should be clear that, you know, we don't

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have any verification that this is authentic or not,

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so we have to go with what politico is reporting

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that said though, it does seem to be genuine

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. Um And if it is it is something that

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we just haven't seen um in decades, if ever

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really to have a full a full opinion draft opinion

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leaks like this.