In a landmark ruling, the US Supreme Court on Friday overturned the Roe vs Wade verdict, putting an end to nearly 50-year-old constitutional protections for abortion.
The verdict comes a shot in the arm for Republicans and handed a momentous victory to Republicans and religious conservatives who had been rooting against abortion.
The 6-3 court ruling upheld a Republican-backed Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks. Three of the judges on the Supreme Court bench were appointed by President Joe Biden’s predecessor and Republican Donald Trump.
The three judges to give a verdict against the over-ruling of the Wade Vs Roe verdict were Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
The Roe vs Wade judgment reinforced that the right to personal privacy under the US Constitution protected a woman’s ability to terminate her pregnancy. The Supreme Court, in another ruling in 1992, reaffirmed abortion rights and prohibited laws that imposed an “undue burden” on abortion access.
With inputs from wired agencies
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