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US judges look set to overturn historic abortion ruling

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62% : READ MORE: Calls to end years of anti-abortion protests outside Birmingham Robert Clinic What is Roe vs Wade?
53% : Last year, Texas passed the Texas Heartbeat Act, which bans abortion after foetal heartbeat activity is detected - typically after around six weeks.
51% : Overturning the decision has been a key target for anti-abortion activists ever since it was first issued.
42% : If Roe vs Wade is overturned by the US Supreme Court, state legislatures across the US will be left to decide whether abortion should be legally available, and if so, in what specific circumstances.
38% : In March this year, legislators in Idaho followed suit by passing their own law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
36% : Justice Samuel Alito writes in the draft majority ruling that the legal reasoning behind the Roe vs Wade ruling is "exceptionally weak" and argues further that "inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation's history and traditions".
33% : When the ruling was issued, a total of 30 US states banned abortion outright and another 16 permitted it only in a very restricted number of scenarios - including incest, rape and where the mother's life was held to be at risk.
25% : A leaked draft majority opinion suggests that Roe vs Wade, which established the right to abortion at the national level in the US, is set to be repealed US Supreme Court judges appear poised to overturn Roe vs Wade, the 1973 ruling that guaranteed the right to abortion at the national level.

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