CHICAGO (AP) The weeks after Kaniya Harris found out she was pregnant were among the hardest in her life. Final exams were fast approaching for the college junior. Her doctors told her she had an ovarian cyst, and the risk of ectopic pregnancy was high. The wait times for abortion clinics near her city […]
The wait times for abortion clinics near her city of Bethesda, Maryland, seemed impossibly long. "My mental health was at the lowest point it’s ever been in my life," said Harris, who had an abortion last May. As advocates push this year for ballot measure initiatives aiming to protect abortion rights, key differences have emerged in the language of proposed measures.