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Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Little Rock

How a rightwing machine stopped Arkansas’s ballot initiative to roll back one of the strictest abortion bans

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Theresa Lee was forced to carry her pregnancy even though it posed a risk to her life. Photograph: Michael Noble Jr./For The Guardian

Theresa Lee was 22 weeks pregnant last year when her doctor confirmed the news: she had no amniotic fluid and the baby she was expecting, who she had named Cielle, was not growing.

In many states across the US, Lee would have been advised that terminating the doomed pregnancy was an option, and possibly the safest course to protect her own life.

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