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Missouri's attorney general Eric Schmitt announces that his state will be the first "to effectively end abortion" in the United States, after the conservative-dominated Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 "Roe v. Wade" decision that enshrined a woman's right to an abortion, saying that individual states can now permit or restrict the procedure themselves. "I pledge to continue to fight for our most fundamental right: the right to life," Schmitt says in a video statement posted to social media. SOUNDBITE
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson calls a US Supreme Court ruling ending the federal right to abortion "a big step backwards". Johnson, in Kigali for a Commonwealth heads of government meeting, said the court's rulings have "massive impacts on people's thinking around the world". SOUNDBITE
Abortion rights supporters and anti-abortion rights proponents gather outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC the morning after a stunning leak of a draft opinion that signals the institution may be set to strike down the right to abortion. IMAGES
Hundreds of protesters gather outside US Supreme Court after abortion ruling leak. The Supreme Court is poised to strike down the right to abortion in the United States, according to a bombshell leaked draft of a majority opinion that would shred nearly 50 years of constitutional protections. The draft opinion was written by Justice Samuel Alito and has been circulating inside the conservative-dominated court since February, the news outlet Politico reported. IMAGES
Mexico City, Sep 7 (EFE).- Mexico's Supreme Court (SJCN) on Tuesday declared criminalizing abortion to be unconstitutional, setting an historic precedent that prevents women obtaining abortions and medical personnel helping them with their consent from being jailed."Never again will a woman ... be criminally judged. Today, the threat of prison and the stigma weighing on people who freely decide to interrupt their pregnancies has been banished," said Supreme Court Justice Luis Maria Aguilar, the author of the move, said.The Supreme Court justices unanimously invalidated Article 196 of the Coahuila Penal Code, whereby in the northern border state a three-year prison sentence could be handed down to women found guilty of voluntarily have an "abortion or the person who performs the abortion with consent." (Camera: AMERICA NERI).SHOT LIST: A GROUP OF PEOPLE AGAINST ABORTION DEMONSTRATE OUTSIDE THE SUPREME COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE NATION, IN MEXICO CITY, MEXICO.