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The new, state-level political battles over abortion will most likely play out on a map familiar to anyone who has followed recent presidential elections. Certain states that are reliably under Republican control - like Texas, much of the south and large swaths of the central and western US - are likely to impose, or have already enacted, some form of ban. Other states that are reliably Democratic, such as the Pacific coast and the north-eastern US, have or will soon enact abortion protections.