JOHANNESBURG - A potentially watershed moment in the United States’ legal history is currently playing out, with the country’s abortion laws on the cusp of being taken back 50 years. The U.
S Supreme Court is mulling overturning its findings on its landmark Roe v Wade ruling - a 1973 case that paved the way for women's reproductive rights across the country.
The U.S District Court for the Northern District of Texas found in McCorvey’s favour and essentially ruled that the law contravened her right to privacy and was, as a result, unconstitutional. But it still left them with the power to restrict abortions. In 2018, Mississippi passed the Gestational Age Act, under which almost all abortions after 15 weeks were banned.
If Roe v Wade is overturned, states would again be empowered to further restrict or even outright ban abortion. And according to the Guttmacher Institute - a leading research and policy organisation focussed on global sexual and reproductive health and rights - 23 states already have laws that could be used to restrict the legal status of abortion.South Africa has some of the most liberal abortion laws in the world.
“It’s vital that an abortion is safe in medical terms,” Dr Bela Ganatra, Head of WHO’s Prevention of Unsafe Abortion Unit, said at the time.
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