Revealed: how a hardline anti-abortion group is pushing bans across the US

Experts say, given makeup of the supreme court, this is movement’s ‘best opportunity to overturn Roe v Wade in a generation’

Anti-abortion legislation that copies a controversial bill recently passed into law in Georgia is being considered by lawmakers in nine other states across the country, according to pro-choice campaigners monitoring the spread of such laws in the US.

Bills have so far passed one chamber in Louisiana, Missouri, South Carolina and Tennessee. Others have been introduced to statehouses in Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Texas and West Virginia without yet facing votes.

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