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The Pitt News, February 16, 2017: (Opinion) State abortion laws harm low-income women the most

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“In Texas, a bill that caused the closure of many of the state’s abortion-providing clinics — and was ruled unconstitutional in June 2016 — showed how disproportionately women of color and women from low-income backgrounds are affected by abortion legislation. In the 23 Texan counties with clinics, 60 percent of low-income women relied on those clinics before they started shutting down.”

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