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State Policy Trends 2019: A Wave of Abortion Bans, But Some States Are Fighting Back

By the end of 2019, 25 new abortion bans had been signed into law, part of a total of 58 abortion restrictions enacted. However, in direct response to various efforts to undermine abortion access, 36 measures that protect or expand people’s ability to get an abortion were enacted in 2019 —more than in the entire previous decade.

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