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Numbers are growing and tempers are fraying outside the supreme court. My colleague David Smith has just sent this video of protestors on both sides of the abortion rights debate facing off:

Celebrities are sharing their abortion stories as the backlash to the supreme court's draft ruling removing women's rights to the procedure grows. My colleague Lizzy Davies has this report: