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title: "40 Years After Roe v. Wade, Attacks on Access to Reproductive Health"
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# 40 Years After Roe v. Wade, Attacks on Access to Reproductive Health

Radcliffe Institute, In The News • October 25, 2012

> Abortion restrictions recently passed in the United States—such as waiting periods, unnecessary requirements and restrictions on funding, and state-mandated counseling that sometimes includes misinformation—disproportionately affect young, poor, and rural women.  
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> Norsigian noted that attacks on reproductive health care stateside have an impact beyond our borders. New regulations that block funding for contraceptives have an effect on HIV/AIDS and maternal mortality rates in countries to which the United States provides aid.

  
**Read the full story:** [40 Years After Roe v. Wade, Attacks on Access to Reproductive Health](http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/in-news/40-years-after-roe-v-wade-attacks-access-reproductive-health) by Ivelisse Estrada

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