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Mississippi’s new abortion ban will hit black women the hardest
“The anti-abortion movement is feeling emboldened to really … take the next step,” Heather Shumaker, senior counsel for reproductive rights and health at the National Women’s Law Center, told North. As a result, states are trying to push “a clearly unconstitutional ban on abortion in states where they think that it could be successful,” Shumaker said.
