50 years after Roe v Wade, abortion bans back in US

On this day in 1973, the US Supreme Court issued Roe v Wade, one of its most momentous decisions, ruling that a Texas law criminalising abortion in most instances violated a woman’s constitutional right of privacy. But 50 years later, the US seems to have turned a full circle as several States, especially the Republican Party-governed states, have begun reimposing strict clampdowns on abortions and the top court in the US is again hearing a petition challenging a particularly stringent abortion ban in Texas.