Small US Town A 'Pawn' In Push To Ban Abortions Nationwide

Edgewood Mayor Ken Brennan, who voted in favor of the ban, said he was 'suspicious' about the delay (Credit: AFP)

When Marcia Smith moved to a small town in New Mexico last year, she did not expect to find herself battling a Donald Trump-linked lawyer's plan to effectively outlaw abortion across the United States.

But last April, attending a packed, eight-hour-long and bitterly divided municipal meeting, she watched in horror as Edgewood voted to ban the mailing of widely used abortion pills.