WASHINGTON, US
\nThe US Supreme Court on Friday overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that recognized women\u2019s constitutional right to abortion, a decision condemned by President Joe Biden that will dramatically change life for millions of women in America and exacerbate growing tensions in a deeply polarized country.
\nThe court, in a 6-3 ruling powered by its conservative majority, upheld a Republican-backed Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
\nThe vote was 5-4 to overturn Roe, with conservative Chief Justice John Roberts writing separately to say he would have upheld the Mississippi law without taking the additional step of erasing the Roe precedent altogether.
\nThe reverberations of the ruling will be felt far beyond the court\u2019s high-security confines – potentially reshaping the battlefield in November\u2019s elections to determine whether Biden\u2019s fellow Democrats retain control of Congress and signaling a new openness by the justices to change other long-recognized rights.
\nThe decision will also intensify debate over the legitimacy of the court, once an unassailable cornerstone of the American democratic system but increasingly under scrutiny for its more aggressively conservative decisions on a range of issues.
\nThe ruling restored the ability of states to ban abortion. Twenty-six states are either certain or considered likely to ban abortion.
\nMississippi is among 13 states with so-called trigger laws to ban abortion with Roe overturned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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