Anti-abortion lawmakers seek to redefine ‘abortion’ to exclude medical treatment

By: Sofia Resnick

Outlets: Stateline

Published: April 13, 2026

Words: 1,370

Last Updated: 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Some anti-abortion state lawmakers are pushing to revise the definition of “abortion” so abortion bans don’t apply to cases in which the death of an “unborn child” is the result of medical care provided to the pregnant woman.

In the four years since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to ban abortion, stories continue to emerge of women with doomed pregnancies who developed life-threatening infections, had to travel to another state, or …

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