Two mothers faced vastly different outcomes when they got pregnant and needed medical care in Texas. Nitashia Johnson and Danielle Villasana for NPR hide caption
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Demonstrators protest about abortion outside the Supreme Court in Washington, June 24, 2022. In the year since, approximately 22 million women, girls and other people of reproductive age now live in states where abortion access is heavily restricted or totally inaccessible. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
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Anna drove 40 minutes from her home to pick up free diapers from Tere Haring at Allied Women's Center in San Antonio. Anna, who is pregnant with her seventh child, says she did consider abortion: "All I could think about â like, I need an abortion because there's no way I can deal with everything going on right now and taking care of all the boys by myself and having another baby." Ilana Panich-Linsman for NPR hide caption
They tried and failed to get an abortion. Texas family grapples with what it'll mean
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, in Tallahassee, Fla., on Saturday. Don Vonmoore/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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An empty exam room at Northland Family Planning in Sterling Heights, Mich. Paulette Parker/Michigan Radio hide caption
Inside a Michigan clinic, patients talk about abortion — and a looming statewide vote
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Inside a Michigan clinic, patients talk about abortion — and a looming statewide vote
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Elizabeth and James Weller at their home in Houston two months after losing their baby due to a premature rupture of membranes. Elizabeth could not receive the medical care she needed until several days later because of a Texas law that banned abortion after six weeks. Julia Robinson/NPR hide caption
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Abortion rights opponents hold signs outside the Supreme Court on June 27, 2022. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Who and what is behind abortion ban trigger law bills? Two groups laid the groundwork
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An employee adds codes to a schedule board at the Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, Louisiana. FRANCOIS PICARD/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Dr. Kara Beasley protests the overturning of Roe vs. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court, in Denver, Colorado on June 24, 2022. JASON CONNOLLY/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Doctors weren't considered in Dobbs, but now they're on abortion's legal front lines
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Mahayana Landowne, of Brooklyn, N.Y., wears a "Lady Justice" costume as she marches past the Supreme Court during a protest for abortion rights on June 30, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
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Abortion rights protesters in Louisville, Ky., after the Supreme Court announced it had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. On Monday, abortion rights advocates filed a lawsuit arguing that the Kentucky state constitution protects the right to abortion. Jon Cherry/Getty Images hide caption
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Abortion-rights protesters and anti-abortion protesters gather Sunday outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images hide caption
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Whole Woman's Health of Minnesota, a clinic that opened to patients in February, is one of only eight that provide abortions in the state and is located just a few minutes from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Christina Saint Louis/KHN hide caption
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Abortion rights demonstrators hold signs outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
Thomas Dobbs is the state health officer at the Mississippi State Department of Health. His name appears on the landmark Supreme Court case on abortion rights, despite having "nothing to do with it," he has said. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images hide caption