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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Victoria Bekiempis and agencies

Republican-run US states move to immediately ban abortion after court overturns Roe v Wade

People attend an abortion-rights rally on 3 May 2022 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
People attend an abortion-rights rally on 3 May 2022 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Photograph: Rick Bowmer/AP

On the day that the US supreme court ruled to overturn Roe v Wade, stripping constitutional protections for reproductive health, a slew of US states immediately moved to ban abortion across Republican-run swaths of America.

The moves were swift in many of the 13 US states which have previously passed abortion-banning “trigger laws” designed to come into effect when the federal right to abortion was removed.

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