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The conservative-dominated court overturned the landmark 1973 “Roe v Wade” decision on Wednesday.
 The US Supreme Court has overturned a landmark 1973 'Roe v Wade' decision that gave women right to an abortion.
The ruling overturning the decision was announced on Friday.
The apex court said that individual states can now permit or restrict the procedure themselves.
“The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and
Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned
to the people and their elected representatives,” the court said.
In the majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito said “abortion presents a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply conflicting views.
“The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion,” he said.
Dissenting were the three liberals on the court.
The ruling will likely set into motion a cavalcade of new laws in
roughly half of the 50 US states that will severely restrict or outright
ban and criminalize abortions, forcing women to travel long distances
to states that still permit the procedure.
The opinion shredded the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling by the nation’s
highest court that said women had the right to abortion based on the
constitutional right to privacy over their own bodies.
Alito’s opinion largely mirrors his draft opinion that was the
subject of an extraordinary leak in early May, sparking demonstrations
around the country and tightened security at the court in downtown
Washington.
Barricades have been erected around the court to keep back the
protesters gathered outside — after an armed man was arrested on June 8
near the home of conservative justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The court’s ruling goes against an international trend of easing
abortion laws, including in such countries as Ireland, Argentina, Mexico
and Colombia where the Catholic Church continues to wield considerable
influence.
It represents a victory over 50 years of struggle against abortion
by the religious right but the anti-abortion camp is expected to
continue to push for an outright nationwide ban.
The ruling was made possible by the nomination of three
conservative justices to the court by former Republican president Donald
Trump — Neil Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
The case before the court was a Mississippi law that would restrict
abortion to 15 weeks but during the hearing of the case in December
several justices indicated they were prepared to go further.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, 13 states have adopted
so-called “trigger laws” that will ban abortion following the move by
the Supreme Court.
Ten others have pre-1973 laws that could go into force or
legislation that would ban abortion after six weeks, before many women
even know they are pregnant.
Women living in states with strict anti-abortion laws will either
have to continue with their pregnancy, undergo a clandestine abortion or
obtain abortion pills, or travel to another state where the procedure
remains legal.
Several Democratic-ruled states, anticipating an influx, have taken
steps to facilitate abortion and clinics have also shifted their
resources.
Travel is expensive, however, and abortion rights groups say
abortion restrictions will severely impact poor women, many of whom are
Black or Hispanic. |
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