
Olivia Rodrigo on the Other Stage during day four of Glastonbury Festival (Photo by Kate Green/Getty Images)
(Picture: Getty Images)Last Friday the Republican-held US Supreme Court made the shocking decison to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling which granted a constitutional right to abortion to women in the US. By reversing it, the lives of tens of millions of women will be affected as individual states can now determine whether they allow their citizens to access an abortion.
Currently, 13 states have trigger laws in place which means abortion will become illegal in these states the moment Roe is overturned — 26 states have laws which indicate they will also criminalise abortion. This means that over half the US states will soon ban abortion.