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4 years after Dobbs, advocates clash over how far to take fight for later abortion access

Kate Dineen assumed she would always have access to reproductive healthcare because of where she lived. It came as a shock when she was denied an abortion in 2021 because of gestational limits to the procedure in Massachusetts law.

4 years after Dobbs, advocates clash over how far to take fight for later abortion access

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Kate Dineen assumed she would always have access to reproductive healthcare because of where she lived.

It came as a shock when she was denied an abortion in 2021 because of gestational limits to the procedure in Massachusetts law.

Dineen was 33 weeks into her pregnancy, the third trimester, when a routine ultrasound detected a […]

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Kate Dineen assumed she would always have access to reproductive healthcare because of where she lived. It came as a shock when she was denied an abortion in 2021 because of gestational limits to the procedure in Massachusetts law. Dineen was 33 weeks into her pregnancy, the third trimester, when a routine ultrasound detected a […]

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