United States Supreme Court is set to overturn the legal right of women in America to have abortion, according to a leaked document.
Millions of United States women and civil rights groups have been left stunned after a document labelled ‘Opinion of the Court’ allegedly showed a majority of the supreme court’s justices supported striking down Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion in the United States.
The document seen by Political news outlet, Politico, first published the paper, allegedly made earlier this year, states that there is no constitutional right to abortion services and would allow individual states to heavily regulate or outrightly ban abortion of unwanted pregnancies.
Reacting to the document release, former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton warned, that if it’s true, it would be a ‘direct assault on the dignity, rights, and lives of women, not to mention decades of settled law’.
‘It will kill and subjugate women even as a vast majority of Americans think abortion should be legal’, she said. ‘What an utter disgrace.’
The draft opinion was said to be made in reference to a case named Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation, which challenges Mississippi’s ban on abortion 15 weeks after conception.