Joe Biden blasts 'unAmerican' Supreme Court anti-abortion ruling

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66% : It also meant that hundreds of thousands of children ended up state orphanages where they were beaten, abused and lived in filthy conditions - with an estimated 170,000 housed in these facilities when communism fell in 1989.
58% : U.S. Capitol Police says it has been working closely with other law enforcement agencies in order to prepare for demonstrations.
56% : She was a member of anti-abortion groups at Notre Dame University, where she taught law, and she signed a newspaper ad opposing 'abortion on demand' and defending 'the right to life from fertilization to natural death.'
51% : In doing all of that, it places in jeopardy other rights, from contraception to same-sex intimacy and marriage.
51% :Sixteen states and the District of Columbia, meanwhile, have protected access to abortion in state law.
51% : Anti-abortion laws in the Philippines derive from its time as a colony of Spain.
51% : She gave her up for adoption the day after giving birth, then continued fighting for the right to abortion afterwards.
50% : President Joe Biden has called the US Supreme Court's abortion ruling a 'sad day for the court and for the country''Now with Roe gone, let's be very clear, the health and life of women across this nation are now at risk,' he said from the White Housemore videos 1 2 3 Watch video Watch video Watch video Watch video Watch video Watch video Watch video Watch video Watch video Watch video Watch video Watch videoPro-life protesters celebrate with champagne on Friday moments after the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v Wade, which guarantees women the right to an abortionTwo anti-abortion demonstrators embrace and hug outside the Supreme Court on on learning that Roe v Wade had been overturnedAnti-abortion activist are overcome with emotion and hug each other following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade on Friday
50% : The constitutional right to abortion was later confirmed in a number of decisions, including 'Webster v. Reproductive Health Services' in 1989 and 'Planned Parenthood v. Casey' in 1992.
50% : As it stood, abortion was legal in every state - but with varying restrictions.
49% : Demonstrators argue with law enforcement moments before the US Supreme Court ruling on Roe v WadeAnti-abortion campaigners celebrate outside the US Supreme Court in Washington DC on Friday following the decision to overturn Roe v WadeAbortion-rights activists react outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Friday following the court's decisionAnti-abortion campaigners celebrate outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, following the ruling
48% : About three dozen other countries allow it only to save the life of the mother, a list that includes Nigeria, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Iran, Afghanistan and Myanmar.
46% : An abortion rights demonstrator cries outside the US Supreme Court after the court overturned the landmark Roe v Wade caseAbortion-rights activists look forlorn outside the US Supreme Court following the decision to overturn Roe v WadeTensions over the future of abortion rights in the country have been running high since a draft opinion of Dobbs was leaked - and showed that the high court's conservative majority was poised to push whether abortion was legal back to the states
46% : As it stands in the US, abortion can take place until about 24 weeks into pregnancy - but the exact period varies between states.
46% : The Democratic-led legislature in February passed a constitutional amendment that guarantees the right to abortion.
45% : A majority are in favor of abortion being legal in all or most circumstances, but polls indicate many also support restrictions especially later in pregnancy.
45% : The Planned Parenthood v Casey ruling also affirmed Roe's finding of a constitutional right to abortion services, but allowed states to place some constraints on the practice.
44% : Now that the US Supreme Court has voted to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision, conservative states will have more confidence that their new limits on abortion will stand while liberal states will feel more urgency to protect and expand abortion rights.
44% : Approximately 73 million abortions occur worldwide annually, with 61 per cent of all unintended pregnancies and 29 per cent of all pregnancies ending in abortion, according to the World Health Organization.
43% : The first sign that the court might be receptive to wiping away the constitutional right to abortion came in late summer, when the justices divided 5-4 in allowing Texas to enforce a ban on the procedure at roughly six weeks, before some women even know they are pregnant.
43% : Barrett was perhaps the most vocal opponent of abortion in her time as a law professor, before becoming a federal judge in 2017.
43% : Friday'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. Wade decision - which held that access to abortion in the US is a constitutional right - 'egregiously wrong from the start'.
43% : On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court decided that the constitutional right to privacy applied to abortion.
43% : Senegal prohibits abortion but its code of medical ethics allows it if three doctors agree it is needed to save a woman's life.
42% : The decision by the court's conservative majority to overrule the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years.
42% : The 18 states that have near-total bans on abortion already on the books are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
42% : Now that Roe has been overturned, abortion is still likely to remain legal in liberal states.
42% : Roe v. Wade: The landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in AmericaNorma McCorvey, seen in 1983 - ten years after the Supreme Court decision
41% : 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. Wade ruling.
40% : 'Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion,' he wrote.
39% : A total of 13 states - Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming - have adopted so-called 'trigger laws' that will ban abortion virtually immediately.
39% : Ten others have pre-1973 laws that could go into force or legislation that would ban abortion after six weeks, before many women even know they are pregnant.
39% : Tensions over the future of abortion rights in the US have been running high since the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito in May, which indicated the court was prepared to allow states to make the decision on whether abortion was legal.
39% : By erasing abortion as a constitutional right, the ruling restores the ability of states to pass laws prohibiting it.
39% : For example, Texas bans abortion after about six weeks but Florida has a 15-week abortion ban.
39% : For example, Texas bans abortion after about six weeks but Florida has a 15-week abortion ban.
39% :Abortion does not become illegal everywhere in the US now that Roe v. Wade is overturned, with individual states still able to choose whether and when they would be permitted.
39% : In 1966, a complete ban on abortion and access to contraception was imposed in Romania, with the target of increasing its population.
38% : Twenty-six states are seen as either certain or likely now to ban abortion.
38% : The decision came against a backdrop of public opinion surveys that find a majority of Americans oppose overturning Roe and handing the question of whether to permit abortion entirely to the states.
38% : The paper was labelled '1st Draft' of the 'Opinion of the Court' and was said to be referring to a case challenging Mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks - a case known as Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization.
38% : Mr Stitt signed a bill in April banning abortion except in medical emergencies and penalizing providers who violate the law with up to $100,000 in fines and 10 years in prison.
38% : There are 16 countries where abortion is prohibited altogether, a list that includes Egypt, Iraq, the Philippines, Laos, Senegal, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.
38% : More than 180 women who experienced obstetric emergencies were prosecuted for abortion or aggravated homicide in the past 20 years.
38% : Abortion has been prohibited for more than a century.
38% : The landmark ruling legalized abortion nationwide but divided public opinion and has been under attack ever since.
38% : McCorvey became a born again Christian in 1995 and started advocating against abortion.
38% : Shelley has refused to say whether or not she agrees with abortion, for fear of weaponized by either side of the debate.
37% : She sued the Dallas attorney general Henry Wade over a Texas law that made it a crime to terminate a pregnancy except in cases of rape or incest, or when the mother's life was in danger - arguing that the law infringed on her constitutional rights.'The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision,' Conservative Justice Samuel Alito, who was nominated to the court in 2006 by George W Bush, wrote in the ruling on Friday.
37% : The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research group, has said that 26 states are 'certain or likely' to ban abortion now.
37% : Many were visibly dejected at news of the landmark ruling, and embraced one another on learning that their protests at plans to end federal access to abortion had come to naught.
37% : A document labelled 'Opinion of the Court' shows a majority of the court's justices earlier this year threw support behind overturning the 1973 case that legalized abortion across the country.
37% : The exceptions do not allow for abortion past 15 weeks in case of rape, incest or human trafficking.
36% : The ruling means that individual states now have the power to decide on whether to ban abortion.
36% : But Alito contended that his analysis addresses abortion only.
36% :Twenty-six states are certain or likely to ban abortion now that Roe v. Wade is overturned, according to the pro-abortion rights think tank the Guttmacher Institute.
35% : In his draft, Alito dismissed the arguments in favour of retaining the two decisions, including that multiple generations of American women have partly relied on the right to abortion to gain economic and political power.
35% : In the United Arab Emirates, abortion is illegal except if the pregnancy endangers the woman's life or there is evidence the baby will not survive.
34% : The 26 states where abortion will likely become illegal now Supreme Court has overturned Roe vs WadeThe 26 states where abortion will likely become illegal if SCOTUS overturns Roe vs Wade after leaked draft opinion showed a majority of justices supported the moveMore than half of all US states have some kind of abortion ban law likely to take effect now that Roe v Wade has been overturned by the United States Supreme Court.
34% :Thirteen states, mainly in the South and Midwest, already have laws on the books that ban abortion in the event Roe is overturned.
34% : Women in Malta are denied access to abortion, even if their lives are at risk.
33% : There were also cheers of delight from pro-life advocates, who gathered outside the United States' highest court ahead of the landmark ruling.
32% : In their Senate hearings, Trump's three high-court picks carefully skirted questions about how they would vote in any cases, including about abortion.
31% :'My whole thinking is that, 'oh God everybody is going to hate me because everyone is going to blame me for abortion being legal.'
30% :WHICH STATES COULD MAKE ABORTION ILLEGAL NOW THAT ROE V. WADE IS OVERTURNED?
29% : Polls conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and others also have consistently shown about 1 in 10 Americans want abortion to be illegal in all cases.
24% :Abortion would likely become illegal in about half of the states in the US now that the ruling is overturned - with 24 states expected to ban abortion if they are able to do so.
22% : In Friday's ruling, Alito also wrote that Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to abortion, were wrong the day they were decided and must be overturned.'Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.
21% : President Joe Biden said Friday that 'it's a sad day for the court and the country' after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

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