4 years after Dobbs, advocates clash over how far to take fight for later abortion access

By: Kelcie Moseley-Morris

Outlets: Stateline

Published: June 24, 2026

Words: 2,121

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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Kate Dineen assumed she would always have access to reproductive healthcare because of where she lived. It came as a shock when she was denied an abortion in 2021 because of gestational limits to the procedure in Massachusetts law.

Dineen was 33 weeks into her pregnancy, the third trimester, when a routine ultrasound detected a problem with the fetus’s brain. An MRI showed that her son, whom she’d named Teddy, had suffered a catastrophic stroke …

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