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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Poppy Noor

‘This is not hopeless’: the progressive prosecutors who vow not to enforce abortion bans

District attorney Joe Gonzales of Bexar county in Texas, Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel, Virginia's attorney for Fairfax county Steve Descano.
District attorney Joe Gonzales of Bexar county in Texas, Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel, Virginia's attorney for Fairfax county Steve Descano. Composite: AP Images, Bexar.org

Michigan’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, never thought she would have an abortion. But after finding herself pregnant with triplets in 2002, she faced an unenviable choice: abort one, or miscarry all three. “I took my doctor’s advice, which I should have been able to do,” she says in a phone interview.

Nessel plans to protect that same right for residents of her state if Roe v Wade is overturned this summer, as a leaked supreme court draft opinion indicates is all but certain.

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