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The US Supreme Court is leaving women's access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Friday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug mifepristone to take effect. The court is dealing with a new abortion controversy less than a year after its conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright. For more, FRANCE 24 is joined by Eric Lisann, Lawyer, Legal Analyst and Former US Federal Prosecutor.
Dozens of women march to the United States embassy in Buenos Aires to protest the US Supreme Court's decision to strike down the right to abortion.
Concerns over US Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade dominate the minds of people celebrating Pride in New York. The city was hosting two marches, the official NYC Pride March, held for the first time in person since the pandemic, and the Queer Liberation March, created in 2019 by queer activists as a protest free of sponsors or corporate floats.
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
U.S.-led air strikes hit 10 units of Islamic State fighters in Syria in recent days as well as militants with the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group. Jillian Kitchener reports.
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