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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Salomé Gómez-Upegui

Florida, abortion refuge in US south, poised to pass six-week ban

A woman has her vitals checked at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Jacksonville, Florida in 2022.
A woman has her vitals checked at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2022. Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images

A six-week abortion ban proposed by Florida Republicans earlier this month threatens to reverberate across the American south.

Following the supreme court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization to overturn the federal right to abortion, Florida became a strategic refuge for women seeking to access reproductive healthcare from states that banned abortion – places as varied as Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas.

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