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You don't overturn a previous court's decisions lightly and I think most Americans are somewhere in the middle on abortion and there's not going to be a revolution here at all.

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William Safire
Age: 79 †
Born: 1929
Born: December 17
Died: 2009
Died: September 27
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William Lewis Safire
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