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LIFE SENTENCE

Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion

Demonstrators protest about abortion outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. Associated Press
By MARK SHERMAN years ago, was the culmination marriage, gay sex and the use of but abortion-rights supporters, in-
Associated Press of decades of efforts by abortion contraceptives. cluding President Joe Biden, ex-
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme opponents, made possible by an Pregnant women considering pressed dismay and pledged to
Court on Friday stripped away the emboldened right side of the court abortions already had been deal- fight to restore the rights.
nation’s constitutional protections fortified by three appointees of for- ing with a near-complete ban in “It’s a sad day for the court and
for abortion that had stood for mer President Donald Trump. Oklahoma and a prohibition after for the country,” Biden said at
nearly a half-century. The decision Both sides predicted the fight over roughly six weeks in Texas. Clinics the White House. He urged voters
by the court’s conservative major- abortion would continue, in state in at least five other states — Ala- to make it a defining issue in the
ity overturned the landmark Roe capitals, in Washington and at the bama, Kentucky, Missouri, Wiscon- November elections, declaring,
v. Wade ruling and is expected to ballot box. Justice Clarence Thom- sin and West Virginia — stopped “This decision must not be the final
lead to abortion bans in roughly as, part of Friday’s majority, urged performing abortions after Friday’s word.”
half the states. colleagues to overturn other high decision.
The ruling, unthinkable just a few court rulings protecting same-sex Abortion foes cheered the ruling, Continued on Page 2