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Protesters in favor of abortion rights and anti-abortion activists gather at the US Supreme Court, as a leaked draft ruling on ending nationwide legal abortion has sparked a political firestorm around one of America's most divisive ethical issues.
Abortion rights supporters and anti-abortion rights proponents gather outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC the morning after a stunning leak of a draft opinion that signals the institution may be set to strike down the right to abortion. IMAGES
IN THE PAPERS - Tuesday, May 3: We look at the extraordinary US Supreme Court leak of a draft majority opinion that plans to roll back the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling. On International Press Freedom Day, the Swiss paper Le Temps features Dmitri Mouratov, editor of the Kremlin critic newspaper Novaya Gazeta on its front page. Also, controversial changes to the Olympic sport of pentathlon, and a little Dutch boy who goes for an early morning joyride in his mother's car!
Director-general of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, reaffirms the WHO's support for women's "right to choose when it comes to their bodies and health, full stop." His comments come in the wake of a June 24 US Supreme Court decision revoking the constitutional right to abortion.
Dozens of women march to the United States embassy in Buenos Aires to protest the US Supreme Court's decision to strike down the right to abortion.
Concerns over US Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade dominate the minds of people celebrating Pride in New York. The city was hosting two marches, the official NYC Pride March, held for the first time in person since the pandemic, and the Queer Liberation March, created in 2019 by queer activists as a protest free of sponsors or corporate floats.