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Sam Levin in Los Angeles

California prepares to fortify state’s abortion access: ‘Fight for what’s right’

A woman wearing a pink suit speaks into a mic attached to a lectern
Mia Bonta speaks at a news conference in Sacramento, California, on 10 May 2022. Photograph: Rich Pedroncelli/AP

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, anti-abortion groups are hoping this is their moment.

With Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress and the US supreme court governed by a conservative supermajority, activists are pushing an extreme agenda, including a nationwide abortion ban, a prohibition on abortion pills, a “fetal personhood” doctrine that could restrict in vitro fertilization and attacks on contraception.

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