A leaked United States Supreme Court draft majority opinion that would strike down the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling, which made abortion legal nationwide, has raised the prospect of abortions again becoming illegal across swathes of the country.
Overturning the 1973 ruling, which conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito called in the leaked draft opinion “egregiously wrong from the start”, would again leave final decisions on abortion access to state governments, barring the passage of federal legislation.
