Now the issue of termination of unwanted pregnancy will be decided at the level of legislation of each state.

This could lead to an actual abortion ban in the conservative states of the South and Midwest.

In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the lawsuit of patient

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who insisted on the right to terminate the pregnancy.

McCarvy already had two children, a third pregnancy was unwanted, but under Texas law, abortion was allowed only in the event of a direct threat to the mother's life.

The court then ruled that women in all U.S. states in the first trimester of pregnancy are entitled to an abortion for whatever reason.

Today, the court overturned its nearly 50-year-old verdict and said abortion issues would again be governed by state-specific laws.

The Guttmacher Institute for Reproductive Health estimates that at least 26 U.S. states, especially the traditionally conservative states of the South and Midwest, may soon decide to ban abortions altogether or almost completely.

This could lead to an increase in the number of clandestine abortions, related deaths and serious consequences for women's health, "abortion tourism", as well as an increase in the number of infanticides and rejections of newborns.

• Since 1994, the United States has become only the fourth country to restrict women's right to self-determination to terminate a pregnancy.

  Before them, Poland, Nicaragua and El Salvador did it.

• Meanwhile, the German Bundestag on June 24 repealed a law passed in the era of National Socialism, which forbade doctors and clinics to openly mention that they perform abortions.

  According to current regulations, doctors could perform this procedure, but were not allowed to mention it in the advertisement or in the price list, as well as to give patients any additional information about the methods and risks of abortion.

  Now German doctors will be able to talk about abortion as openly as about any other medical service.