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How Pennsylvania's abortion fight could play out across the country

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has vetoed anti-abortion bills passed by the Republican-controlled legislature three times, and the Democrat promised to defend abortion rights as long as he’s in office. That window is fast closing.

Tribune News Service

In abortion fight, conservatives push to end all exceptions

Rape, incest and the health of the fetus or mother were once accepted reasons to obtain an abortion in even the most conservative Republican-led states

The Independent UK

In Chicago, advocates and providers brace for influx of patients if abortion rights are rolled back

Changes in abortion rights in neighboring states could mean an additional 20,000 to 30,000 people per year will come to Illinois for abortions, said Jennifer Welch, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois.

Chicago Sun-Times

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7 persistent claims about abortion, fact-checked

Several not-quite-right claims have continued to linger about abortion since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

WEKU

Despite pleas, Maryland Gov. Hogan won’t release funds early to train more abortion providers statewide

BALTIMORE — Despite pleas from some Maryland Democratic lawmakers and officials, Gov. Larry Hogan does not plan an early release of $3.5 million in funds set aside for training additional clinicians to perform abortions in Maryland before doing so is required next year.

Tribune News Service

Red states crack down on abortion pills

Several states have moved to restrict access to the pills and more could follow suit.

Axios

California anticipated a Supreme Court abortion decision. What it’s already done to fight it

WASHINGTON — Immediately following a report that United States Supreme Court justices would overturn Roe v. Wade, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California leaders announced that they would work on putting the right to an abortion in the state Constitution.

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Could the U.N. sanction the U.S. for human rights violations if Roe is overturned?

The organization has made it clear that abortion access is a human right. Whether it’s willing to fight the U.S. over that is another story.

Mic

Maryland prepares to increase its abortion capacity as future of Roe v. Wade in doubt

BALTIMORE — Long before Monday night’s revelation that five U.S. Supreme Court justices are likely to overturn 50 years of legal precedent in Roe v. Wade, Democratic legislators had begun preparations for Maryland to accept more abortion-seekers from out of state.

Tribune News Service

Michael Hiltzik: Corporations left California for lower taxes and fewer regulations. Will abortion rights bring them back?

Last year, corporate America remained mostly silent as Texas launched a pitiless attack on abortion rights, a trend that spread rapidly to other red states.

Los Angeles Times

The state of abortion in America

Recently, the majority of abortions are received by women in their 20s.

Axios

Editorial: Idaho after Roe: Unsafe abortions, out-of-state travel, assault on women’s health

A document leaked to Politico, a draft U.S. Supreme Court ruling, appears to show that the court plans to overturn the 1973 landmark cases of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

Tribune News Service

What’s next if Roe v. Wade falls? More than half of states expected to ban or restrict abortion

If the Supreme Court’s conservative majority affirms the leaked decision overturning abortion rights in the U.S., the effects would be sweeping for 40 million women in more than two dozen states where Republican-led legislatures have been eagerly awaiting the repudiation of the right to terminate a pregnancy.

Tribune News Service

States prepare for patchwork of abortion laws

WASHINGTON — In the hours after news leaked of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would reverse long-standing precedent for the right to an abortion, crowds began to gather around the Supreme Court.

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US abortion advocates vow to fight expected Roe v Wade decision

In Georgia, advocates brace for six-week abortion ban if Supreme Court strikes down landmark Roe v Wade decision.

The Independent UK

LOCALIZE IT: How abortion ruling could play out for states

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US abortion trends have changed since landmark 1973 ruling

The landscape has changed in many ways since the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v

Axios

Where abortion will be illegal with Roe v. Wade overturned

A patchwork of state laws will now govern the procedure.

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The Independent UK

‘Trigger bans’ and anti-abortion laws will eliminate access in nearly half the US without Roe

Millions of Americans will lose access to abortion care if Supreme Court reverses landmark ruling

Roll Call

States prepare for patchwork of abortion laws - Roll Call

The leaked draft decision has mobilized lawmakers, advocacy groups and others scrambling with how to protect or limit abortion access.

Reason

The End of Roe? Everything You Need To Know About the Leaked Supreme Court Draft Opinion

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Al Jazeera

Amid US abortion crackdown, California seeks to be a ‘sanctuary’

If Roe v Wade falls, 26 states are likely to ban abortion and millions will need to cross state lines to access care.

Los Angeles Times

Rape exceptions to abortion bans were once widely accepted. No more

WASHINGTON — As conservative states enacted stringent abortion bans in recent decades, there was one threshold they were loath to cross: Abortion was nearly always allowed in cases of rape or incest.

The Guardian - US

Mail-order abortion pills become next US reproductive rights battleground

The FDA has dropped a requirement for the abortion drug mifepristone to be picked up in person – but some Republicans states are clamping down

The Independent UK

Colorado governor signs law to protect abortion rights

Colorado has joined several other Democratic-led U.S. states in codifying the right to abortion in state law

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