The 'Does', another couple who were childless, also filed a companion complaint, saying that medical risks made it unsafe but not life-threatening for the wife to carry a pregnancy to term, and arguing they should be able to obtain a safe, legal abortion should she become pregnant. In the 1970s she won a landmark abortion case - but the baby she wished to abort, Shelley Lynn Thornton, was born before the case concludedįiling a complaint alongside her was Texas doctor James Hallford, who argued the law's medical provision was vague, and that he was unable to reliably determine which of his patients fell into the allowed category. Norma McCorvey, known as 'Jane Roe', is pictured in January 1983 (left) and July 2011 (right). Here, looks at the history of abortion laws in the US: The leak while the case is still pending is seen as an extraordinary breach.
The draft majority opinion was written by Justice Samuel Alito and has been circulating inside the conservative-dominated court since February. For example, Texas bans abortion after about six weeks but Florida has a 15-week abortion ban. These include Arizona, where the Republican Governor in March signed a bill banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy and Idaho where the governor signed a six-week abortion ban that allows family members of the fetus to sue providers who perform abortions past that point, similar to a Texas law enacted last year.īefore this ruling was overturned, in the US, an abortion can take place until about 24 weeks into pregnancy - but the exact period varies between states. Wade decision - which held that access to abortion in the US is a constitutional right - 'egregiously wrong from the start'.Ībortion rights have been under threat in recent months as Republican-led states move to tighten rules - with some seeking to ban all abortions after six weeks, before many women even know they are pregnant. Wade ruling.įriday's 6-3 decision comes over a month after a 98-page draft revealed by Politico in May that calls the landmark 1973 Roe v. The Supreme Court has struck down the right to abortion in the United States, according to a bombshell decision in that has overturned the landmark Roe v.
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