Republican-run US states move to immediately ban abortion after court overturns Roe v Wade

Moves were swift in many of the thirteen US states which have previously passed abortion-banning trigger laws'

On the day that the US supreme court ruled to overturn Roe v Wade, stripping constitutional protections for reproductive health, a slew of US states immediately moved to ban abortion across Republican-run swathes of America.

The moves were swift in many of the 13 US states which have previously passed abortion-banning trigger laws" designed to come into effect when the federal right to abortion was removed.