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Supreme Court kills Roe v. Wade abortion-rights ruling

The ruling "consigns women to second-class citizenship," dissenting judges wrote. A majority of the U.S. public has supported keeping abortion legal.

By Greg Stohr | June 24, 2022 at 10:59 AM

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(Bloomberg) — A deeply divided US Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and wiped out the constitutional right to abortion, issuing a historic ruling likely to render the procedure largely illegal in half the country.

The court voted along ideological lines, 6-3 to uphold Mississippi’s ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy, and 5-4 to go further and explicitly overturn Roe and the constitutional right it established.

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