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Webster v. Reproductive Health Services upholds a Missouri law restricting abortion care.

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The U.S. Supreme Court upholds a Missouri law that weakens Roe v. Wade and reduces women's access to abortion by forbidding "the use of public facilities for all abortions except those necessary to save a woman's life."

This policy harms impoverished Black women especially because of inequitable access to care.