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The shifting battle over abortion rights 50 years after Roe
Fifty years ago today, the Supreme Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade gave constitutional protection to the right to seek an abortion. But after a different Supreme Court overturned Roe last year, ending a pregnancy is now a crime in at least 13 states and severely restricted in at least 12 more. Sarah Varney, senior correspondent for Kaiser Health News, joins John Yang to discuss.
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