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Guest Column: The Danger of Abortion ‘Compromise’
Dec 26, 2023 | By Erika Christensen in Abortion, Every Day
Featuring Pamela Merritt, MSFC's Executive Director.
We all know the reproductive rights mantra that says we need to keep the government away from our bodies and out of abortion. But behind closed doors, policies that claim to do just that are being written to protect the state’s right to criminalize abortion later in pregnancy.
We’ve all read along as Abortion, Every Day has tirelessly covered the post-Dobbs aftermath. The news churns with state ballot measures, the salience of abortion in elections, ongoing court cases, and stories of people denied care like Kate Cox in Texas..
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