Abortion rights haven’t been a priority in blue states—until now.
, a new law removed some abortion restrictions, including a requirement that women be told about the “physical and emotional implications” of having the procedure.
This has been a rare flurry of legislative successes for abortion-rights advocates. About one-quarter of the state-level provisions that have protected and expanded abortion rights since 2011 have passed in the past two weeks, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis of data from the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports legal abortion. That dramatic increase isn’t a sign, though, that lots of states are moving to protect abortion — at least, not yet.
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