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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Jessica Glenza

Blue states seek to protect abortion rights before supreme court decision

People rally in support of abortion rights at the state Capitol in California, May 2019.
State-level efforts to protect the right to abortion and reduce the cost of obtaining the procedure are, in large part, a response to a forthcoming supreme court decision which could gut abortion rights nationally. Photograph: Rich Pedroncelli/AP

In the face of imminent threats to legal abortion in the US, lawmakers and activists in left-leaning “blue” states are working to expand rights and access to the procedure.

State-level efforts to protect the right to abortion and reduce the cost of obtaining the procedure in states such as California, Rhode Island and Vermont are, in large part, a response to a forthcoming supreme court decision which could gut abortion rights nationally.

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