Currently, 14 states have banned abortion outright, and 11 have restricted it to 22 weeks or less after a person's last period. As restrictions have spread, the distances that people living in parts of the Midwest and most of the South need to travel to reach an abortion facility are increasing.
When people want an abortion and can't get one, the results can harm the physical, emotional and financial health of both parent and child. Some of the strongest evidence comes from a project conducted from 2008 to 2016 that is known as the Turnaway Study.
Simultaneously, reproductive rights opponents are looking to use an 1873 law called the Comstock Act, which outlaws mailing obscene material, to further limit abortions and perhaps to target contraception.
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