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The ruling removes federal protections for abortion, sending questions of legality to individual US states.

The Supreme Court’s decision to reverse 50 years of constitutional protection for the right to get an abortion is more than 200 pages long. Morgan Marietta, a political scientist at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and editor of the annual SCOTUS series at Palgrave Macmillan, studies the ideas and ideology…

The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years

Modern constitutional law as we have known it ended Friday.

Individual states will now be able to set their own rules after the decision following a lengthy legal battle

"Today is one of the darkest days our country has ever seen," Senate Majority Leader Schumer said.

Republican politicians like Ted Cruz, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert swiftly praised the decision

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, a landmark 1973 court ruling that established abortion as a constitutional right, that revokes the right from women and shifts authority over the procedure to the states.

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, state laws, rather than federal law, will now determine whether someone can legally get an abortion. It also means that state Supreme Courts will become much more important in deciding the validity of state laws on abortion.

After half a century, Americans’ constitutional right to get an abortion has been overturned by the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court released its opinion on the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Friday morning, striking down Americans’ constitutional right to an abortion