Health Care

How the abortion rights debate will shift in ’26

In most states, the central question is no longer whether or at what point in a pregnancy abortion should be legal.
Hundreds of people descend on the Nebraska Capitol, in Lincoln, on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Margery Beck)

The national battle over abortion rights is poised to intensify in statehouses in 2026, as lawmakers prepare proposals on access to abortion-inducing medication, new forms of criminal and civil liability, and the enforcement of laws across state borders.

Bills already filed for next year illustrate the extent to which the debate has shifted in the three years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

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