The U.S. Supreme court has over-ruled a landmark ruling which made abortion up to birth a constitutional right.
The decision does not abolish access to abortion but hands the power to individual American states to decide what their abortion laws might be.
The court over-turned Roe vs Wade, a 1973 abortion case, by five votes to four. It also voted by six votes to three to uphold a ruling which supported a Mississippi law which bans abortion after 15 weeks.
The opinion, in the Mississippi abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is widely seen as the Supreme Court’s most highly anticipated and consequential ruling since Roe.
