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A New Front Line for Abortion Rights

2025/5/27
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The overturning of Roe v Wade led to a rise in abortions due to the implementation of shield laws in blue states. These laws protect providers who offer abortions to patients from states with abortion bans, facilitating access despite restrictions. The legality of these shield laws is currently being challenged.
  • Overturning of Roe v. Wade led to increase in abortions.
  • Blue states enacted shield laws to protect abortion providers.
  • Shield laws allow providers to offer abortions to patients from states with bans.

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After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortions in the United States actually went up, in part because of a novel legal strategy that pitted blue states against red states.

Pam Belluck, who covers health and science for The Times, discusses that strategy and explains how proceedings against a New York doctor could take it apart.

Guest: Pam Belluck), a health and science reporter at The New York Times.

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