Battles Over Abortion Access Playing Out Nationwide

A new Texas abortion law narrows the window that women can buy abortion pills from ten weeks to seven weeks.

As of Thursday in Texas, the window for a woman to buy pills that induce termination of pregnancy will narrow — a change in the law supporters hail as another step in outlawing abortion altogether. Critics say it cuts off access to health care.

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The new law narrows the window in which doctors are allowed to give abortion-inducing medicines from ten weeks to seven weeks into a pregnancy.