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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Maroosha Muzaffar

Israel eases regulations on abortion access as response to Roe v Wade

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Israel has eased its regulations on abortion access in a move that is a direct response to the US Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade, which it criticised as a decision designed for “oppressing women”.

“The rights to a woman’s body are those of the woman alone,” Israel’s health minister Nitzan Horowitz said in a statement on Monday, announcing the changes.

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