US Supreme Court Ends Right To Abortion

New Delhi: The United States (US) Supreme Court on Friday ended the Right to Abortion which had been in place nearly 50 years ago.

Under this law, American women had the right to make their own decision to have an abortion or not.

The court overturned a nearly 50-year-old landmark 1973 "Roe v Weed" decision that guaranteed a woman's right to an abortion and said that individual states could allow or restrict the procedure themselves.

The ruling came more than a month after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicating the court was prepared to take this momentous step.

The Court held that the Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision. Reversing the 1973 ruling would again allow individual US states to ban abortions. At least 26 states are expected to do so immediately or at the earliest.

Actually, recently there has been a significant increase in the cases of abortion in America. Religious factors have also been involved in whether women should be given the right to abortion. It has also been a point of contention between Republicans (Conservatives) and Democrats (Liberals).

This dispute reached the Supreme Court in 1973, which is known as the Roe v Wade case.

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