The US Supreme Court has voted to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion that has existed for almost 50 years.
Saturday 25 June 2022 04:00, UKCampaigners on both sides knew the judges' likely decision, but when it came there was still a flood of emotion outside the Supreme Court.
Macy Petty, a 20 -year-old pro-life student from Rock Hill, South Carolina, had mascara running down her cheeks. She was jumping and singing with elation and relief, waving a sign which read 'We are the post-Roe generation' and dancing to Queen's Another One Bites The Dust and I Gotta Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas.Around her neck were two pendants: one with the year 1972 and the another with 2022.
"1972 was the last year before Roe", she told me."When there was a culture of life, and life was protected and could flourish. I ordered one from Amazon. It says 2022 because we are back to a post-Roe America."Her friend Alivia Talley, also 20, was beaming as she told me:"I just can't stop thinking: thank you Jesus. I know that this is an act of God. I totally know that. And I just can't stop thinking that.
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