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Images of the US Supreme Court as justices decide to preserve access to the abortion pill, pending appeal. IMAGES
Dozens of abortion rights supporters rally against a Texas judge's decision to reverse the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approval of the abortion pill mifepristone outside the Supreme Court, in Washington, DC. On Friday, the nation's highest court temporarily preserved access to mifepristone, in an 11th-hour ruling preventing lower court restrictions on the drug from coming into force. IMAGES
Thousands of anti-abortion protesters march in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC during the "March for Life" protest, the first since the Supreme court overturned Roe v. Wade. IMAGES
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
Crowds protest in front of the US Supreme Court after it ended the right to abortion in a seismic ruling that shreds half a century of constitutional protections on one of the most divisive and bitterly fought issues in American political life. IMAGES
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