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Less than one year after the Supreme Court overturned the federal constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization and "returned [the issue of abortion back]...

The quest to enact local bans has become particularly acute in small towns, like West Wendover, Nevada, and Hobbs, New Mexico, which are situated by borders between states that have restricted abortion and states where laws preserve access.

A ban relying on the Comstock Act would likely be more extreme than most red state voters would accept.

Several local authorities across the state have passed ordinances restricting access to abortion. The city of Gallup could be next despite legal challenges over these ordinances from the Attorney General’s office.

In April, Mark Lee Dickson arrived in this 4,500-person city that hugs the Utah-Nevada border to pitch an ordinance banning abortion.

After local leaders in rural Nevada reached an impasse over a proposed Planned Parenthood clinic, an anti-abortion activist pitching local abortion bans across the U.S. arrived at their remote city hall.

Anti-abortion outsiders are descending on rural communities in proximity to states where laws preserve abortion access.

Abortion opponents have mapped out a multipronged legal strategy for combating use of the abortion pill mifepristone by invoking an obscure 1873 law called…

And Sen. Tim Scott officially enters the GOP presidential primary.

The battle over abortion access continues in one New Mexico town. There are new efforts from pro-choice advocates in Edgewood.