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Outside Philly and Pittsburgh, it can be as hard to get an abortion in Pa. as in Mississippi

Although Pennsylvania never enacted restrictions as stringent as Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks, the laws on the books still mostly wiped out access from Philly to Pittsburgh.

Sarah Hammond, 28, of Lancaster, addresses the crowd at an event in Allentown May 4 following the leak of a Supreme Court majority opinion that would overturn the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade. Hammond had an abortion in 2017 and speaks about her experience to raise awareness about the need for access to abortion services.
Sarah Hammond, 28, of Lancaster, addresses the crowd at an event in Allentown May 4 following the leak of a Supreme Court majority opinion that would overturn the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade. Hammond had an abortion in 2017 and speaks about her experience to raise awareness about the need for access to abortion services.Read moreCourtesy of Sarah Hammond