New abortion laws and lawsuits continue to pop up across the U.S., making it difficult to sort separate the noise from the facts. Here are some of the top claims about abortion, fact-checked.
that providers consider anesthetic options for the fetus during an abortion, a service that could carry additional costs.
"There is ample evidence that many people are ambivalent about the issue or experience significant cross-pressures in formulating an opinion," Scott Keeter, a senior survey adviser to the Pew Research Center,."These realities make it quite difficult to sum up abortion attitudes in one or two sentences or with one or two questions."
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