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US President Joe Biden says abortion opponents have "no clue" about the power of women. "But they found out when reproductive freedom was on the ballot," he adds during his State of the Union address. SOUNDBITE
Hundreds of protesters march through Argentina's capital of Buenos Aires in favour of the decriminalization of abortion and access to sexual education, on the Day for the Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean. IMAGES
Images of the US Supreme Court as justices decide to preserve access to the abortion pill, pending appeal. IMAGES
Images of people outside the US Supreme Court building as the nation's highest court is poised to wade into the legal battle over the abortion drug mifepristone with a ruling Friday on lower court-ordered restrictions on the widely used pill. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden urges to "ban assault weapons now" in his State of the Union speech. "I led the fight to do that in 1994... Let's finish the job and ban these assault weapons", Biden says. SOUNDBITE
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
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