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By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Seventeen months after leaving office, former President Donald Trump delivered on a campaign promise when the conservative U.S. Supreme Court majority he cemented overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. The ruling issued on Friday represented a victory long in the making for a well-organized and generously funded conservative movement to push America’s courts rightward, aided by legal activists and deft political maneuvering by top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell. Trump during his four years as president appointed t…