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United States abortion-rights movement
Abortion law
Abortion debate
Migrants and Ethnic-minorities for Reproductive Justice
Catholic Church and abortion
Los Angeles fetus disposal scandal
Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies
Definitions of abortion