The fight over legal abortion is moving to courts in several states as both sides struggle over whether state constitutions include a right to the procedure.
Abortion rights advocates have notched a few early procedural wins in state courts since the US Supreme Court decided June 24 that the US Constitution doesn’t include the right.
But some state constitutions contain explicit privacy rights that some say could apply to abortion—a question now up to state supreme courts to decide.
In addition, some state constitutions have language protecting “natural” and “inherent” rights, or rights to bodily autonomy and personal decision-making that ...
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