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US abortion rights ‘war’ rages on 50 years after now-defunct ruling

US abortion rights ‘war’ rages on 50 years after now-defunct ruling

WASHINGTON: The fight for abortion rights “isn’t over,“ US President Joe Biden said Sunday, 50 years after a landmark Supreme Court ruling had guaranteed that right, before the court reversed itself last June.“Today should’ve been the 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade,“ the Democratic president said on Twitter, referring to the original ruling.“Instead, MAGA Republican officials” -- supporters of former president Donald Trump, with his Make America Great Again slogan -- “are waging a war on women’s right to make their own health care decisions.”Since the Supreme Court overturned the Roe ruling -- a reversal made possible with the votes of three conservative justices appointed by Trump -- some 20 Republican-led US states have passed laws banning or severely restricting abortion rights.Biden added: “I haven’t stopped fighting to protect women’s reproductive rights - and I never will.”In a weekend of competing demonstrations from the two sides of the heated national debate, some 300 women i

The U.S. Sun, Benzer haberler