On 24 June, 2022, for the first time in half a century, abortion access in America was no longer a constitutional guarantee.
A decision from the US Supreme Court’s conservative majority – in a case involving a Mississippi clinic, the state’s anti-abortion policymakers, and a right-wing legal campaign that has spent years working towards its goal to end legal abortion in America – overturned a ruling in Roe v Wade, the 1973 case that defined the battle for abortion rights in the decades that followed.
