The Supreme Court ruled Friday the Constitution provided no right to abortion, overturning nearly 50 years of precedent and sending the legality of the procedure to state legislatures to determine.

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From here, access to abortion could become a patchwork based on where a person lives. More than two dozen states are certain or likely to ban abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.

Unsurprisingly, the decision sparked a firestorm of reaction in the U.S. Republicans – and some anti-abortion activists – celebrated after having fought to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.

Democrats lamented their lost fight to save it.

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