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Cities Funding Abortion Access Battle State Leaders Against It
Aug 24, 2022 | By Hadriana Lowenkron in BloombergThis article was originally published in Bloomberg on August 24, 2022. You can access the original article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-24/from-st-louis-to-new-orleans-cities-and-states-clash-over-abortion-access?srnd=premium
Fights between state officials and local governments are escalating after the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, as cities start to use their own funding to support abortion access.
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“This is about the erosion of democratic norms, and that has been happening in the South and the Midwest for quite some time,” said Pamela Merritt, executive director of Medical Students for Choice, a global nonprofit that provides medical students and physicians with abortion and family-planning education.