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Maya Yang

Gillibrand calls abortion rights ‘fight of generation’ after ‘bone-chilling’ court draft opinion

Pro-choice demonstrators rally for abortion rights in front of the US supreme court in Washington DC, on Saturday.
Pro-choice demonstrators rally for abortion rights in front of the US supreme court in Washington DC, on Saturday. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AFP/Getty Images

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Sunday called the battle over abortion rights in the US the “biggest fight of a generation”.

The New York Democrat urged her party to stand up to Republicans seeking to abolish the constitutional right, and called the draft US supreme court opinion leaked last week, revealing a conservative-leaning super-majority supports overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision, “bone-chilling”.

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