The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, immediately ending the federal constitutional right to an abortion which had been settled law in this country for 50 years. At a stroke the Court has removed a constitutionally protected right from millions of Americans, threatening their control over their own bodies and putting their health, and even their lives, at immediate risk. This decision reverses progress that many generations of people in this country had fought and even died for: the right to control their own bodies, their sovereign right over their very own flesh. Click here to read the full statement from the American Ethical Union.