How the pandemic is putting abortion in the crosshairs
Attorneys-general across the US are sparring over whether the worldwide public health crisis justifies temporarily shutting abortion clinics
31 March 2020 - 11:31
New York/Los Angeles — The coronavirus is adding new ammunition to America’s abortion wars.
A move by Republican-controlled Ohio this month to suspend abortions as a nonessential service during the Covid-19 pandemic set off a wave of similar measures in other conservative states. That prompted a flurry of lawsuits by abortion rights advocates and a call to arms by elected officials in liberal states...
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