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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : After 2012, his relationship with the university shifted, and he became a fellow at the Hoover Institution, the conservative think tank loosely affiliated with the university, where he was a vocal opponent of the Affordable Care Act and pushed for Medicaid to become a bridge to private insurance.
52% : Edsall offered this quote from Richard Ballmer at Dartmouth: "Opposition to abortion became a convenient diversion -- a godsend, really -- to distract from what actually motivated their political activism: the defense of racial segregation in evangelical institutions."
49% : Lest there be any doubt, let's take a detour to another aspect of American health care and public health: abortion and reproductive health.
37% : The new ban on abortion in Texas was crafted carefully to make it difficult to challenge.
34% : As Thomas Edsall wrote in the Times recently, abortion has never really been just about abortion but always tightly linked with racist ideologies.

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