• Sumayyah Waheed is senior policy counsel at US civil rights group Muslim Advocates.
• Abortion clinics are to cancel appointments and in some cases shut down.
• Civil rights groups have mounted emergency petitions to try to stop  or at least delay the end of services.

Sumayyah Waheed calls her present state of mind “grim determination”. Waheed, senior policy counsel of the US civil rights organisation Muslim Advocates; said she felt devastated last week when the US Supreme Court overturned; the nation’s constitutionally guaranteed right to abortion. Waheed told that the decision “empowers the religious right to continue to push laws; that essentially entrench their religious viewpoints into legislation.” “Anyone who doesn’t feel that way, especially religious minorities; feels completely violated by that.”

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While Christian nationalists, right-wing politicians; and pro-life organisations rejoiced at the Supreme Court of the United States’; decision on June 24 to reverse the precedent-setting Roe v. Wade decision from 1973; many US communities have been gripped by uncertainty and terror.

As “trigger” abortion limitations quickly went into effect in some states; abortion clinics were forced to cancel appointments and in some cases shut down. Civil rights organisations staged emergency petitions; to try to avert or at least delay the cessation of abortion services.

The rollback is anticipated to have the greatest impact on black and low-income women; who would be unable to access what is frequently a life-saving medical operation. The Supreme Court, according to religious minority, has violated their rights.

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