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More states will now limit abortion, but they have long used laws to govern – and sometimes jail – pregnant women

  • Written by Wendy Bach, Professor of Law, University of Tennessee
imageActivists protest for the end of shackling pregnant women during birth in prison in New York in 2015.Yanina Manolova/Associated Press

It’s clear that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will make it harder for women to get an abortion across much of the United States. But there are other...

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