Judicial Activism Also Plagues the States:

Court-created state constitutional rights to abortion

16 state constitutions have been interpreted as having a "broader" constitutional right to abortion than the U.S. Constitution: AK, AZ, CA, CT, FL, ID, MA, MN, MS, MT, NJ, NM, NY, TN, VT, and WV

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