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Coral Murphy Marcos

Over 60 clinics in 15 US states have stopped offering abortions, study finds

All the 13 clinics are in Georgia, where abortion is banned at about six weeks, when many women are unaware they are pregnant.
All the 13 clinics are in Georgia, where abortion is banned at about six weeks, when many women are unaware they are pregnant. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

More than 60 clinics across 15 US states have stopped offering abortions since the supreme court overruled Roe v Wade, the ruling which guaranteed the right, a new study found.

The court’s decision this summer, in Dobbs v Jackson, Mississippi, has prompted bans of most abortions in more than a dozen states. Other states are fighting over access to the procedure by suing to block enforcement of laws restricting abortion.

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