Joan Roth and Shira Gorelick, with reporting by Susan Weidman Schneider and Sarah Seltzer

Women Shake Things Up in a Major Statehouse

For decades, women in New York facing heartbreaking medical issues in the later months of pregnancy had to fly to other states for terminations, thanks to outdated abortion laws. This January, after years of lobbying, activism and voting, that finally changed.

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