In recent months, six other Republican-led states, including Florida, have enacted new laws that outlaw abortion at various stages of pregnancy. Here is a guide to the new abortion restrictions passed by states since last summer.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses a convocation at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., on Friday.
Prior to the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that overturned Roe, 18 Republican states across the South and West, such as Alabama, Idaho, Mississippi and South Dakota, passed so-called “trigger laws,” which
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