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The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned a 50-year-old ruling that allowed abortion.

From now on, each state will decide whether to allow abortion or not, and today (25th) large-scale protests were held across the United States as the progressive and conservative camps are in sharp conflict.



Correspondent Kim Jong-won from New York.



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crowd gathered in front of the Supreme Court in Washington DC, the United States, and when the Supreme Court's decision on the right to abortion came out, one side reacted furiously,



[The Supreme Court!

It's illegal!

Abortion ban!

It 's illegal!]



On the other side, weep with cheers and tears of joy.



America was split in two over the right to abortion.



The U.S. Supreme Court, which issued the so-called 'Roe v. Wade ruling' that legalized the right to abortion in 1973, and the laws of each state that banned abortion since then have all been privatized, but today nine Supreme Court justices have overturned the ruling in a ratio of 5 to 4 for the first time in about 50 years. With the repeal, abortion was again subject to different legal judgments in each state.



The aftermath was fierce.



Protests have been held across the United States, from Texas and Georgia in the South, where public opinion against abortion rights are high, in the West, Central and North.



In New York, thousands of protesters condemning the Supreme Court's decision have gathered and are marching through the city center, chanting 'My body my choice', chanting 'My body is my decision'.



Whenever a political issue erupted, there were large and small protests like this in New York, but this issue of abortion rights is shaking the whole of the United States to such a degree that it is rare to see such a large crowd.



[Color/Protester: This decision is against women.

Men shouldn't make decisions about women's bodies.

White men don't represent everyone in this country.

Today's decision is unacceptable and we must all act for change.]



President Biden also slammed the Supreme Court's decision.



[Joe Biden/President of the United States: Today, the Supreme Court of the United States took away the constitutional freedoms of the American people.

The health and lives of women in this country are at risk.] With



today's ruling, some hospitals have canceled all planned abortions, with the prospect that at least 26 of 50 states will virtually ban abortion.



(Video coverage: Lee Sang-wook, video editing: Jung Yong-hwa)