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State legislatures play a key role in determining whether women can access reproductive health care - including safe, legal abortion.
- Pro-choice legislators work to pass laws that promote pro-choice goals, such as giving young people medically accurate sex education and making sure women have better access to birth control. Twelve states and the District of Columbia have pro-choice legislatures.
- Anti-choice lawmakers, however, are mounting aggressive campaigns to undermine women's reproductive freedom and interfere with our personal decisions. Between 1995 and 2008, states enacted 581 anti-choice legislative measures, and 19 states have anti-choice legislatures.
Check out our easy-to-use resources below to learn about choice-related laws in your state and whether politicians in your state are actively creating new legislation that will threaten or protect a woman’s right to choose.
Who Decides? The Status of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States See what reproductive choice-related laws are on the books in your state.
Who Decides? State Bill Tracker Find out what reproductive choice-related legislation is pending in your state.
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