The US Supreme Court on Friday ended constitutional protections for abortion that had stood in America for nearly a half-century. <br /> <br />The decision by the court’s conservative majority overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling and is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states. <br /> <br />US President Joe Biden called the Supreme Court ruling a "tragic error". "The court has done what it has never done before: expressly taken away a constitutional right that is so fundamental to so many Americans. It's a realisation of an extreme ideology and a tragic error by the Supreme Court in my view," Biden said, adding that the ruling was taking the country back 150 years.
