California’s passage of a law allowing nurse practitioners and other advanced-practice clinicians to perform early-term abortions shows the importance of having the medical community weigh in.
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux is a freelance writer and a former writing fellow at the Prospect.
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