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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Alvin Chang, Andrew Witherspoon and Jessica Glenza

Abortion deserts: America’s new geography of access to care – mapped

The supreme court has overturned the landmark 1973 decision Roe v Wade, which guaranteed a federal right to abortion.

In its absence, states hostile to abortion are free to ban or severely restrict the procedure. That would leave entire regions of the country without an abortion clinic within a day’s drive, reshaping the geography of abortion access in America in a single, seismic shift.

Abortion won’t be accessible for huge swaths of the country

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