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How Gov. Inslee hopes to strengthen WA's abortion rights
Although already guaranteed by state law, abortion rights codified into WA’s constitution would be harder to undo.
Megan Burbank
Megan Burbank is Cascade PBS’ news editor. She was previously an editor/reporter at The Seattle Times and Portland Mercury, and has covered reproductive rights for NPR, The New Republic and Axios.
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Washington hospitals are struggling to keep ahead of nursing shortages
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