Ending the constitutional right to abortion in the United States

On 24 June 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, a landmark decision that established a constitutional right to abortion before fetal viability. The court’s regressive ruling stands in stark contrast to global trends expanding abortion rights. Half of Americans will no longer fully possess human rights to health and bodily integrity, and the ruling will exacerbate already unconscionable health and economic inequities.Reversing a half century of precedent, the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization that there is no constitutional right to abortion, which is not “essential to ordered liberty.”1 Constitutional rights to contraception, same sex marriage, and same sex intimacy rely on similar reasoning so could be jeopardised in future rulings. For the first time since it was established in 1789, the court withdrew a fundamental human right. Public trust in the court has plummeted. Abortion will be banned or severely restricted in…
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