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Roe v Wade abortion rights case overturned by US Supreme Court

Ruling likely to result in abortion not being legally available in roughly half of US states

Abortion rights activists Carrie McDonald and Soraya Bata react to the ruling which overturns the landmark abortion Roe v Wade case in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington DC. Picture: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Roe v Wade, the historic American abortion ruling that guaranteed the right to an abortion, has been overturned.

The US Supreme Court issued the ruling today which is likely to result in abortion not being legally available in roughly half of the US.

The court voted along ideological lines, six to three to uphold Mississippi’s abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy, and five to four to go further and explicitly overturn Roe and the ...