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Nada Hassanein (Stateline)

Public Health

Medical exceptions to abortion bans often exclude mental health conditions

Nada Hassanein (Stateline)

More than a dozen states now have near-total abortion bans. Among those states, only Alabama explicitly includes “serious mental illness” as an allowable exception.