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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Why these prosecutors are refusing to enforce criminal anti-abortion laws in their states

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Without federal protections for the right to an abortion, legal access to abortion care in the US will vary not just on a state level but county by county, redrawing the nation’s map for bodily autonomy protections.

Severe restrictions on abortion access – and the enforcement of laws in states with criminal abortion bans, with prison sentences and heavy fines for providers and others who “aid and abet” an abortion, in some cases – will largely depend on where one lives.

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