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One State Just Made a Unprecedented Move Toward Locking Up Women Who Seek Abortions

Slate Magazine·Dana Sussman·27 days ago
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Jurisprudence Tinnakorn Jorruang/iStock/Getty Images Plus Sign up for  Executive Dysfunction , a newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story each week about how Trump is changing the law—or how the law is pushing back. You’ll also receive updates on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. Last week, the anti-abortion movement crossed a major new redline. A South Carolina Senate committee voted to advance a bill that would, with almost no exceptions, not only ban abortions but also classify abortion as a misdemeanor crime for patients. The proposed law includes a highly unusual misdemeanor punishment of two years in prison. This has never happened before.…

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