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Images of the US Supreme Court as justices decide to preserve access to the abortion pill, pending appeal. 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
The hearing concerning political opponent Ousmane Sonko's reinstatement on the electoral rolls gets underway. His candidacy for the 2024 presidential election depends on the outcome of this hearing. 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
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters the US Justice Department asked an appeals court on Monday to stay a ruling by a federal judge in Texas that would ban a widely used abortion pill. The ruling "could open the floodgates for other medications to be targeted and denied to people who need them," she adds. SOUNDBITE
People gather outside the J. Marvin Jones Federal Building and Mary Lou Robinson U.S. Courthouse in Amarillo, Texas where a federal judge will hear arguments in a court case that could undo the approval of the prescription drug mifepristone, a widely used abortion pill. IMAGES
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