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Pro-choice activists, politicians and others associated with Planned Parenthood gather for a news conference and demonstration at New York City Hall against the Trump administration's Title X rule change on Feb. 25, 2019. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
ACROSS AMERICA — Only a handful of weeks into the 2021 legislative session, the ongoing policy wars against abortion and the facilities that provide them are already heating up in several states across the country.
It's been nearly a half-century since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark ruling in the case of Roe v. Wade, which granted women a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. Yet in the decades since that ruling, states have spent significant time battling its provisions.