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Decision means state will continue to provide basic reproductive healthcare to low-income women.

Here’s the good news: Women vote, and they won’t stand for these attempts to shove us back to the 50’s.

Arkansas adopted what is by far the country’s most restrictive ban on abortion on Wednesday — at 12 weeks of pregnancy, when a fetal heartbeat can typically be detected by abdominal ultrasound.

Despite the election results, efforts are still underway to restrict US women's access to healthcare and contraception

While access to abortion is still in theory a right every woman in this country enjoys, an economic chasm has yawned between the well-off and the poor.