Jurisprudence

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The American abortion debate had gone relatively quiet before the midterms, even if that calm seems unlikely to last. A number of federal cases seek to impose new national limits on telemedicine abortion or take abortion pills off the market together. Other suits seek to establish that an obscure 19 th -century law is actually a national ban on mailing or receiving any item intended or adapted for abortion. And a federal court is set to decide whether even after the end of Roe , the Constitution doesn’t offer women a right to an abortion even if they are going to die or suffer severe and permanent health damage if they continue a pregnancy .…