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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Geoff Mulvihill,Kimberlee Kruesi and Claire Savage

A year after fall of Roe, 25 million women live in states with abortion bans or tighter restrictions

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

One year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, prompting a seismic shift in debates about politics, values, freedom and fairness.

Twenty-five million women of childbearing age now live in states where the law makes abortions harder to get than they were before the ruling.

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