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Abortion issue remains on the boil in US, backlash favours Democrats
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The bans have made abortion services largely inaccessible and denied women and girls their fundamental human rights, experts noted.
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WASHINGTON - An open letter last week to Indiana’s medical licensing board, signed by more than 500 doctors in the US state, warned of a “dangerous and chilling precedent”.
They were writing in support of Dr Caitlin Bernard, an obstetrician-gynaecologist who had been reprimanded and fined US$3,000 (S$4,000) by the board for talking publicly about having provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim
