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Activists Lori Gordon (R) and Tammie Miller (L) of Payne, Ohio, take part in the annual "March for Life" event January 22, 2002 in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption

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The movement against abortion rights is nearing its apex. But it began way before Roe

Despite gaining national traction in the 1970s, the history of the anti-abortion movement in the U.S. goes back more than a century before the landmark Supreme Court decision.

Activists Lori Gordon (R) and Tammie Miller (L) of Payne, Ohio, take part in the annual "March for Life" event January 22, 2002 in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption

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The movement against abortion rights is nearing its apex. But it began way before Roe

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A 1983 photo of then 23-year-old visual artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Lee Jaffe/Courtesy of the Basquiat family hide caption

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An intimate look at Jean-Michel Basquiat's art, courtesy of his family

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NASA's Perseverance rover took this "selfie" next to a rock where it drilled for samples. NASA wants to bring samples collected by this rover back to Earth. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS hide caption

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NASA is bringing rocks back from Mars, but what if those samples contain alien life?

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Evacuees arrive by bus at an evacuation point for people fleeing the Azovstal plant, Mariupol, Melitopol and surrounding towns under Russian control, on May 3 in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Scores arrived from Mariupol, including the first group who escaped the Azovstal steel facility, following negotiations brokered by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Chris McGrath/Getty Images hide caption

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Evacuees from Mariupol describe how they survived inside the Azovstal steel plant

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