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Abortion battle shifts to U.S. states

June 9, 2009
UPI

Hundreds of restrictions on abortions are being proposed in U.S. state legislatures each year as the focus shifts from Washington, analysts say.

With President Barack Obama in the White House and solid Democratic Party majorities in Congress, abortion foes have shifted their efforts to making the procedure more difficult to obtain by focusing on friendlier state governments, where anti-abortion supporters say they are feeling embattled in the wake of the slaying in Kansas of Dr. George Tiller, The Washington Post reported.

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