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Texas towns try to close roads to abortion-seekers

Pro-abortion activists rally for "reproductive rights and emergency abortion care" outside the US Supreme Court as it hears arguments in the Moyle v. United States case, in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2024. [AFP]

Abortion is illegal statewide in Texas, but residents in the city of Amarillo want to go a step further -- banning even the use of the city's roads by people seeking the procedure elsewhere.

Dismissed as grandstanding and extremist by critics, such laws are legally dubious and almost impossible to enforce yet that hasn't stopped their proliferation across conservative locales in the United States.

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