The real reason America could buck the global trend on abortion

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4. "Instead, it is a more dysfunctional political system."

How can a democratic system potentially bulldoze away established rights favored by the people from whom all power is supposed to flow? That is possible only because the system is not functioning as it was meant to.

The Supreme Court that, according to the leaked document, has voted to rip away from American women a fundamental right guaranteed to more and more women around the world, is made up of judges whose path to the court is littered with democratic malfunction. Five of the nine were nominated by presidents who took office after losing the popular vote but winning the Electoral College -- Donald Trump and George W. Bush (though Bush won a popular majority for his second term, not his first).

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