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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
Pro-choice supporters rally in front of the United States' Supreme Court, in Washington D.C. ahead of a case that may be its most significant in decades on the controversial subject of abortion. At issue is a state law in Louisiana which requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. IMAGES
Activists gather outside the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in Costa Rica's capital San Jose, where for the first time in its history, a case will be heard about the legality of denying a woman access to abortion services. A woman identified only as "Beatriz" is symbolically squaring off against the Central American country of El Salvador, which enforces an absolute ban on the procedure regardless of the fetus's health or any risk to the pregnant woman. 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
Mexico City, Sep 6 (EFE), (CAMERA: Ulises Andrade Vela) .- Mexican conservative groups protest with prayers in front of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), which Monday is debating a historic project that considers the criminalization of abortion in the first stage of pregnancy.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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