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But perhaps the biggest factor is the medical and social revolution that has occurred in the past half century that has freed women from circumscribed lives and changed people’s attitudes toward childbearing all across the planet.

As befits a creation story, “Furiosa” tracks Furiosa from childhood to young adulthood, a downward spiral that takes her from freedom to captivity and, in time, circumscribed sovereignty.

Cyprinodon diabolis, as the species is known, has the most ruthlessly circumscribed natural habitat of any vertebrate: Devils Hole, an exceptionally deep, water-filled cave in a limestone formation in the unforgiving Nevada desert, where the fish mostly stay on a rock shelf little more than 200 square feet.

The world, post-Dobbs, has been so quick to reinstate a legal universe of women as incubators with circumscribed choices because that universe never really went away.

The three judges circumscribed Mr. Trump’s ability to use further appeals of the immunity issue to waste more time and delay the case from going to trial — a strategy the former president has pursued since the start of the case.