US Supreme Court ends constitutional right to abortion

Millions of women in the US will lose the constitutional right to abortion after the Supreme Court overturned its 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision. The judgement paves the way for individual states to ban the procedure.

Thirteen have already passed so-called trigger laws to automatically outlaw abortion.

We'll hear from activist Alina Salganicoff of the Kaiser Family Foundation and LA Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske, who was inside an abortion clinic in Texas when news of the decision broke.

(Photo shows an abortion rights activist protesting outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, USA on 24 June 2022. Credit: Shawn Thew/EPA)