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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Carter Sherman

These states voted to protect abortion rights. Conservative lawmakers are not standing down

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Demonstrators celebrate after a Missouri supreme court ruling, on 10 September 2024 in Jefferson City, Missouri. Photograph: Robert Cohen/AP

After Missouri residents voted to repeal their state’s near-total abortion ban and enshrine abortion rights into their state constitution, advocates quickly got to work. In a lawsuit filed the day after the 2024 election, abortion providers challenged not only the constitutionality of the state’s ban, but also a slew of other restrictions that, they said, made their jobs so arduous as to be impossible.

More than a year later, they are still in court.

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