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Hundreds of protesters gather outside US Supreme Court after abortion ruling leak. The Supreme Court is poised to strike down the right to abortion in the United States, according to a bombshell leaked draft of a majority opinion that would shred nearly 50 years of constitutional protections. The draft opinion was written by Justice Samuel Alito and has been circulating inside the conservative-dominated court since February, the news outlet Politico reported. IMAGES
Missouri's attorney general Eric Schmitt announces that his state will be the first "to effectively end abortion" in the United States, after the conservative-dominated Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 "Roe v. Wade" decision that enshrined a woman's right to an abortion, saying that individual states can now permit or restrict the procedure themselves. "I pledge to continue to fight for our most fundamental right: the right to life," Schmitt says in a video statement posted to social media. SOUNDBITE
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson calls a US Supreme Court ruling ending the federal right to abortion "a big step backwards". Johnson, in Kigali for a Commonwealth heads of government meeting, said the court's rulings have "massive impacts on people's thinking around the world". SOUNDBITE
Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists gather outside the US Supreme Court ahead of oral arguments in the fiercest challenge to abortion in a generation, as a Supreme Court dramatically reshaped by Donald Trump hears a case that could roll back 50 years of reproductive rights. The nine justices -- among them six conservatives -- are examining a 2018 law in the southern state of Mississippi that prohibits most terminations after 15 weeks of pregnancy. IMAGES
Thousands of people gather on Freedom Plaza in Washington DC, ahead of a march toward the Supreme Court, at the start of a day of nationwide protests aimed at countering a conservative drive to restrict access to abortions. IMAGES
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