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Abortion
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Patients sat in abortion clinic waiting rooms as Roe fell. They all had to be turned away.
In states with “trigger” laws, abortion services came to a halt on Friday morning as news rippled through clinic lobbies and patients, whose appointments were minutes outside of the window to receive care, had to be turned away.
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Liberal justices’ dissent sketches out ‘the loss of power, control, and dignity’ in a post-Roe America
“After today, young women will come of age with fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers had,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote.
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The Biden administration just hinted at how it could protect access to medication abortion
The administration may try to “preempt” state laws banning medication abortions, officials suggested.
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This anti-abortion group shapes laws nationwide. Your state may be next.
As a 'major player' in creating anti-abortion legislation, Americans United for Life is exploring what is now possible by offering states model bills they can adapt or adopt in full.
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Here’s when each trigger law banning abortion could go into effect
Thirteen states have trigger laws on the books that immediately, or very quickly, banned abortion after the Supreme Court’s decision Friday.
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Roe v. Wade has been overturned. In these states, abortion access will no longer be accessible.
Thirteen states have trigger laws that would immediately, or almost immediately, ban abortion now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade.
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How the anti-abortion movement shaped campaign finance law and paved the way for Trump
In “Dollars for Life,” abortion historian Mary Ziegler explains how opposition to abortion is linked to the rise of GOP populists like Donald Trump.
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Medication abortion and clinics on federal land: Here are Democrats’ ideas to protect abortion access
Facing a congressional stalemate, Democratic senators have asked the White House to consider a bevy of executive actions to protect abortion care ahead of an expected Supreme Court decision gutting Roe v. Wade.
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In 2020, 1 in 5 pregnancies ended in abortion — the first increase in 30 years
The report from the Guttmacher Institute comes just as the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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37 percent of voters say they will be more motivated to turn out if Roe v. Wade is overturned
A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that 64 percent of U.S adults say they do not want abortion rights to be overturned, with 37 percent of voters saying a Roe reversal would make them more motivated to vote.