Anti-choice states trap women

Many states that have restricted abortion are doing everything possible to extend their bans onto neighboring states.

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September 7, 2023 - 2:57 PM

A sign on the front doors of the Boise Planned Parenthood advises that services have been moved to alternate locations after the building closed in June 2022. Planned Parenthood's clinics in Meridian and Twin Falls still offer services other than abortion. Photo by Darin Oswald/TNS

To assess what America’s increasingly radicalized movement against abortion rights is plotting next against America’s women, it’s generally useful to look to Texas. And what’s going on in the Lone Star State right now should be chilling not just to those who support reasonable abortion rights but to anyone who understands that unfettered travel within the U.S. is as fundamental a freedom for Americans as speech or religion. …

Ordinances already approved in two Texas cities and in two counties make it illegal for anyone to aid a pregnant woman in leaving the state for…

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