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Charlie Jones

14-year-old girl denied life-saving arthritis medicine after new strict US abortion laws

A 14-year-old girl has been denied the life-saving arthirits drug she's been taking for years just days after strict new anti-abortion laws came into affect.

Emma Thompson has debilitating rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis which means she needs a drug called methotrexate to help tame the effects of the disease.

But methotrexate is also be used to end ectopic pregnancies by inducing an abortion, which means many have struggled to pick it up at pharmacies across US states with strict new laws.

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