Last week, a draft was leaked by the Supreme Court showing that a majority of HD judges want to remove the national abortion law in the United States and instead hand over the abortion issue to each individual state.

At present, an HD ruling from 1973 guarantees the right to abortion.

To enshrine abortion rights in federal law probably requires at least 60 of the 100 senators to vote in favor of the proposal - but with 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats in the Senate, it is not very likely that the proposal will pass.

Chuck Schumer, the Democrats' majority leader in the Senate, says that the vote is important after all, because the elected representatives must publicly show which side they support and that it can play a role in the upcoming midterm elections.

- We will vote on Wednesday.

And every American will see how each senator stands.

They can no longer duck it, says Schumer at a press conference in New York on Sunday.

According to a survey by the think tank Pew Research Center, which was released on Friday, about 61 percent of Americans believe that abortion should remain legal in most cases.

But as with so many other social issues, the gap between Democrats and Republicans is large and growing.

Eight out of ten Democrats support abortion rights in most cases.

That's more than twice as many as the 38 percent of Republicans who do, according to the Pew Research Center.

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SVT's foreign reporter Gilda Hamidi-Nia explains why the right to abortion in the US is once again in focus.

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