How states are fighting over women's access to health care
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As Washington moved to reduce federal funding for women’s health this year, adversaries in the war over affordable birth control and other women’s health services shifted the battleground to state capitals — resulting in a spate of new laws that both expand and contract women’s access to care.
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Women in World War I (U.S. National Park Service)
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The new state of healthcare in America: one for men and a worse one for women, Moira Donegan
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Health - Page 763
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Women's Suffrage Movement
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Politics - Page 2714
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Reproductive Freedom American Civil Liberties Union
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Planned Parenthood: The organisation leading the fight for abortion access as Roe v Wade is overturned
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Fighting for the Right to Choose
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Health and Well-Being Full Section - Women in the States
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Equality depends on reproductive rights
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planned parenthood - Page 7