Ending row is very likely to push up america's maternal mortality rates which are already the highest in the industrialized world. Black women are three times more likely to die in childbirth and white men in America. In the longer term, the vious solution would be for the congress to codify right to abortion. Joe byden has said abortions on the ballot from the mid terms but passing such a law is impossible right now.
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convulsed the country; passing the question of abortion rights to the states will divide America yet further. We ask what it means for the court to go so plainly
against public opinion, examine the
woeful effects the changing scenario will have on women and speak to one woman whose life was saved by a now-threatened procedure. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of
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