Fifty years ago, the Roe v Wade ruling heralded a new era of reproductive rights advocacy across the globe. Now that it has been struck down by America’s Supreme Court, the shockwaves are again being felt worldwide | Sherryn_G
, which had banned it outright up until 2017, abortion rights have been included in a new draft Constitution that will be put to a popular vote., where women also frequently die from unsafe abortions, have now decriminalised it too, and nations such asThe US now stands among just a handful of countries that have since the 1990s wound back abortion access. In the days since the Supreme Court gave power back to the states, abortions have become illegal in at least eight of them .
following the death of a woman whose doctors refused to abort a non-viable fetus. She died of septic shock.
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