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Clashes at America’s abortion clinics are getting noisier

The daily confrontations ahead of a battle in the Supreme Court

Face to face at the Pinkhouse
|Jackson, Mississippi

AMERICA’S ABORTION war is increasingly being fought in the courts. More anti-abortion laws have been passed in 2021 than in any year since Roe v Wade half a century ago, in turn prompting a record number of legal challenges, and on December 1st the Supreme Court is due to hold one of the most important hearings on the issue in decades. However, every day across the country a noisier battle is being waged on the pavements outside abortion clinics, as pro-life protesters clash with pro-choice volunteers.

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