Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York described Friday as a "dark day for women across this nation," following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. She declared her state a "safe harbor" for those seeking abortions. nyti.ms/3QJnU1f
Abortion is now banned in at least nine states, with trigger bans in several more set to take effect in the coming days. Laws in eight states took effect on Friday after the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade. nyti.ms/3zYwDqx
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York condemned the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade on Friday as “repulsive.” She said it was a “dark day for women across this nation” who have “long fought for the right to have control over their own lives.” nyti.ms/3OnEpP9
The decision by Republican-appointed justices to end a constitutional right to abortion conflicted with the views of a majority of Americans. nyti.ms/3xVVOY0
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the right to abortion, calling it "an evisceration of Americans' rights." apne.ws/R0ok1Gh
Mike Pence, the former vice president under Donald Trump and a likely Republican presidential candidate in 2024, praised the Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion, saying, “Today, Life won.” nyti.ms/3tZHrRu
House Republicans are hailing the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which ended the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion. apne.ws/R0ok1Gh
The decision by five Supreme Court justices to end the constitutional right to abortion has cast a renewed spotlight on what they said about Roe v. Wade during their confirmation hearings. Here is a sampling: nyti.ms/3brw5zg
Joining Justice Samuel Alito in the majority to overturn Roe v. Wade were Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. apne.ws/Y9sdND3
The Jan. 6 committee outlined on Thursday how Donald Trump tried to strong-arm the Justice Department to overturn the 2020 election, the most brazen attempt by a sitting president since Watergate to manipulate the department to keep himself in power. nyti.ms/3Nyvklr
The ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion after almost 50 years was met with celebration and anger across the country. Demonstrators, filled with emotion, gathered outside the Supreme Court on Friday. nyti.ms/3bl8IqZ
Donald Trump has privately told friends and advisers that he believes the Supreme Court decision ending Roe will anger suburban women, a group who helped tilt the 2020 election to Joe Biden, and lead to a backlash against the GOP in the November midterms. nyti.ms/3AjcDPJ
A protester outside the Supreme Court said she was on a train from New York back to her home in Virginia on Friday morning, but decided to get off when the train reached Washington, getting a sign on her way. nyti.ms/39OtpeG
Anti-abortion demonstrators celebrated in front of the Supreme Court on Friday morning after the 6-3 ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. nyti.ms/3bqx0jw
The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and give individual states the choice of banning or allowing abortions will immediately affect 13 states that have trigger laws. nyti.ms/3nhJvAk
Senator Susan Collins, the Maine Republican who was a key supporter of Brett Kavanaugh in his 2018 confirmation, said he and Neil Gorsuch misrepresented their views on Roe v. Wade in private meetings with her. nyti.ms/3xV6aYa
The House has sent President Biden the most wide-ranging gun violence bill Congress has passed in decades.
The bill is a measured compromise that illustrates progress on the issue following revulsion over last month’s mass shootings in New York and Texas. apne.ws/O2RnfDf
Attorney General Merrick Garland called the Supreme Court's decision to strike down Roe v. Wade “a devastating blow to reproductive freedom,” and he vowed to use the Justice Department’s authority to protect the right to abortions. nyti.ms/3bsy8D9
Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer dissented to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Read the majority opinion and the dissent. nyti.ms/3HQMvgv
Busy Philipps
"It's not brave for me to say I had an abortion at 15, because it's a medical thing — a thing, a choice that I made, and I don't regret it at all. This shame [was] perpetrated on me, but I don't have a shame. I'm glad I didn't have that guy's baby. I'm OK.
Keke Palmer
"I was worried about my career responsibilities and afraid that I could not exist as both a career woman and mother. Twitter is sometimes too flat and too short to express intimate sentiments — words without context [can be] very annoying.
Jemima Kirke
"My life was not conducive to raising a healthy [and] happy child — I just didn't feel it was fair. So I decided to get an abortion. Because I couldn't tell my mother that I was pregnant, I had to pay for it out of pocket.
Stevie Nicks
"If I had not had that abortion, I'm pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac. There's just no way that I could have had a child then, working as hard as we worked — and there were a lot of drugs. I was doing a lot of drugs … I would have had to walk away.
Whoopi Goldberg
"I found out I was pregnant when I was 14 years old — I didn't get a period. I talked to nobody. I panicked. I sat in hot baths. I drank these strange concoctions girls told me about... You mixed it all up. I got violently ill.
President Biden said the health of women in the U.S. "is now at risk" after the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. He said his administration "will use all of its appropriate lawful powers" and told Americans, "with your vote, you can act." nyti.ms/3Nf8heZ
Speaker Nancy Pelosi was clearly shaken by the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, telling reporters “I am personally overwhelmed by this decision.” nyti.ms/3ODBYHY
Here's a look at some of the Supreme Court's major abortion rulings over the last 50 years, as the court’s membership and views on abortion regulations have changed. apne.ws/7QBv15k
President Joe Biden, in an address after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, says "the health and life of women in this nation are now at risk." apne.ws/5zOLB8q
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization upended a half-century of precedent on abortion law set in Roe v. Wade. About half the states are expected to ban or further restrict abortions. nyti.ms/3NlHZYu
"This is an extreme and dangerous path the court is now taking us on," President Joe Biden says in a rebuke of the call by Justice Clarence Thomas to overturn other rulings protecting same-sex marriage, gay sex and the use of contraceptives.
President Joe Biden, in an address after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, says "the health and life of women in this nation are now at risk." apne.ws/5zOLB8q
Senator Mitch McConnell spoke on the ruling to overturn Roe. v Wade on Friday. He arguably shaped the Supreme Court that handed down this decision. nyti.ms/3QLISMV
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she was "personally overwhelmed" by the Supreme Court decision to end Roe v. Wade.
"This cruel ruling is outrageous and heart-wrenching," she said. nyti.ms/3HNJsG4
After the Supreme Court’s decision eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion, the street outside the courthouse was nearly full with demonstrators celebrating and protesting the ruling. Some brought signs reading “I will aid and abet abortion.” nyti.ms/3xMVP0q
People gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court building, both in support and protest, of the high court's ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade and end the 49-year constitutional protection for abortion. apne.ws/KWdvdXY
After hearing that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Dr. Louis Monnig, an obstetrician-gynecologist, said he would head to work knowing that Kentucky’s 2019 trigger law had already criminalized abortion for his patients. nyti.ms/3tYFggM
The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion, and 13 states already have laws that ban abortion in the event of Roe v. Wade being overturned. Another half-dozen states have near-total bans or prohibitions after 6 weeks of pregnancy. apne.ws/tWdbRx0
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, one of the few congressional Democrats who has frequently opposed abortion rights, criticized two conservative justices after the Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade. nyti.ms/3u2KSH8
Justice Samuel Alito, in the opinion issued, wrote that Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to abortion, were wrong the day they were decided and must be overturned. apne.ws/TeJWjxX
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Supreme Court's conservative majority in the decision overruling Roe v. Wade. The court’s three liberal members dissented. nyti.ms/3QIEsGP
The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion in a 5-4 decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade.
@AP explains. apne.ws/hmUQ2ZW
People celebrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the high court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade case with its conservative majority.
Authority to regulate abortion rests with the political branches, not the courts, Justice Samuel Alito wrote. apne.ws/DpDZ44i