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Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) One of the nation’s top health officials is calling attention to the disparity between states on abortion access one year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that guaranteed the right to an abortion. In an interview on “GMA 3” Friday, Xavier Becerra, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said there is a “tale of two cities in America: one where you have rights, another where you don’t, 15 miles apart. And it’s a totally different world." Becerra was visiting two Planned Parenthood clinics Friday – one in Fairview Heights, Illinois, a state where abortion is still legal, and a second clinic less than 20 miles away in St. Louis, Missouri, a state where abortion is almost completely banned. Abortion in Missouri “requires an ‘affirmative defense,’ meaning a provider has to prove in court that an abortion met the criteria for a legal ex

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