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The effects of overturning Roe v. Wade in seven simple charts
Abortion clinics around the United States are facing an uncertain future. Credit: Erin Clark/The Boston Globe/Getty
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Nature 608, 254-257 (2022)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02139-3
Editor’s note: Nature recognizes that transgender men and non-binary people might become pregnant and seek abortion care. We use ‘women’ in this story to reflect how participants are described in the studies we cite.
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