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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Appointments cancelled, clinics closed and fury in the streets: Americans wake up to a new reality as abortion rights disappear overnight

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For the first time in half a century, Americans woke up on Saturday in a country where they no longer had a constitutional right to an abortion.

There was confusion and anger across the US a day after the US Supreme Court struck down the 1973 ruling in Roe v Wade, which affirmed the right to abortion care, and determined that individual states, not the US constitution, should make decisions about abortion access.

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