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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sam Metz and John Hanna

In Utah and Kansas, state courts flex power over new laws regulating abortion post-Roe

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State courts in Utah and Kansas are set to hear arguments Tuesday in legal challenges to new laws on abortion as judges tussle with legislatures over how to regulate the medical procedure and its providers after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Those and other state courts have become key venues in the fight over abortion since last year, when the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the constitutional right to abortion and made the rules governing it a matter of state laws.

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