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The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does. ... It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Age: 87 †
Born: 1933
Born: March 15
Died: 2020
Died: September 18
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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Joan Ruth Bader
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