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The Supreme Court of the United States of America has overridden 50 years of legal precedent and reversed constitutional protections [i] for abortion in the country that were the result of the 1973 landmark Roe v Wade ruling. Pregnant women in the country do not enjoy a constitutional right to abortion any longer. Broadly speaking the result of this ruling results in a split of the country in terms of access to abortion care based on whether a woman lives in a Republican party controlled state or a Democrat
Among secular bioethicists support for liberal access to abortion care has always been strong. The main ethical reasons for this have to do with respecting women’s rights to control over their own bodies [iv] , as well as consequentialist ethical reasons that take cognizance of worse health care outcomes for the most vulnerable women in societies where restrictive access to abortion care regimes are in place [v] . The liberalization of laws on abortion, on the other hand, has demonstrably led to improved he