and mitch mcconnell, welcome the ruling saying it s a victory for the unborn. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. 50 years of a legally enshrined right to abortion in the united states has been brought to an end after the country s supreme court decided to overturn its landmark ruling made in 1973. it means tens of millions of women across the us do not have their right to an abortion guaranteed by the constitution and individual us states are now legally entitled to ban the procedure. up to half of america s 50 states are expected to do so, and 13 have already passed so called trigger laws, which automatically outlaw abortion with the court s ruling. our north america editor sarah smith reports. cheering this is a huge, historic moment for america. as they hear the news from the court, there isjubilation from anti abortionists. chanting: life won today! life won today , they chant, celebrating a victory after almost 50 years. the devastation a
you are a traitor! fury from those campaigning to keep the guaranteed right to abortion, promising to fight back. it s not the will of the people, and this country are supposed to run off off the will of the people. i m 21 and i m terrified! we have a lot of work to do to make that happen, but we will never give up. it s 50 years since there was last a significant decision on abortion rights in america, it might be another 50. and it might be 50 more, sure. but we re not going to stop, it doesn t matter. it doesn t matter what they say, abortions will continue, but they will not be legal, and women will die from botched abortions. it s obvious this ruling is not going to end the arguments over abortion in america. in fact, it will inflame them. in this deeply polarised society, abortion is already one of the most divisive issues. even the president is powerless to change the court s ruling. with this decision, the conservative majority of the supreme court shows how extreme it is, how
times, over the years. them have tried to do, many times, overthe years. so them have tried to do, many times, over the years. so they are moving forward without, other states are going to hunker down and continue to try to expand the right to abortion, to unbelievable extremes. abortion up to birth, abortion on demand, without apology. some states were working this year in their legislatures to allow abortion after birth. that is infanticide. yet the pro life, the pro life movement are the extremists, somehow. iwasjust like to mention, if i could, by the way, president biden mentioned in his comments today that, i believe he put it that this decision makes us an outlier. with all due respect, president biden, that isjust incorrect. this decision returns us, the united states more closer to normal, i m thinking of nations in europe,
recently wrote, is a bad idea. and it would lead to continued reliance on decisions like dread scott, komatsu decision, dread scott, komatsu decision, dread scott, komatsu decision, dread scott, the decision where the supreme court held, relying on history, concluding that blacks were lesser than whites. dred scott. 0utrageous, but was a supreme court case, should we rely on that? komatsu, the decision where the supreme court allowed the us government to intern japanese americans during world war ii. that was another supreme court decision which was basically overturned, just like dred scott was. there is plessy versus ferguson, the separate but equal doctrine, but had to be struck down. and now today, the very flawed rationale of roe v wade was struck down, and by the way, the casey decision that came later upheld the substance of roe based on the
i m thinking of the uk, asked lord abortion after 2a weeks. italy, i believe, is 90 days. our lord. in several countries, i believe ireland, 12 weeks. what they are trying to work on here in the united states is extreme abortion up to birth, so the workload definitely continue,, the nature changes somewhat, the landscape changes with this decision, but the work must continue, the right to protect women. . ~ continue, the right to protect women. ., ~ i. continue, the right to protect women. . ~ continue, the right to protect women. ., , stay with us on bbc news still to come. we report from one abortion clinic in arkansas, which may soon have to close its doors.