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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

Republican abortion bans restrict women’s access to other essential medicine

Reproductive justice rally outside the White House, on 23 August.
Reproductive justice rally outside the White House, on 23 August. Photograph: Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

A few weeks after the supreme court’s 24 June decision to overturn the nationwide abortion rights established by Roe v Wade, the pharmacy chain Walgreens sent Annie England Noblin a message, informing her that her monthly prescription of methotrexate was held up.

Noblin, a 40-year-old college instructor in rural Missouri, never had trouble getting her monthly prescription of methotrexate for her rheumatoid arthritis. So she went to her local Walgreens to figure out why, standing in line with other customers as she waited for an explanation.

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