President Joe Biden has blasted what he’s calling a radical decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn abortion rights

Washington has been stunned by the leaking of a draft decision from America’s top court, which could see the end of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalised abortion.

The draft supreme court decision on Roe versus Wade has been denounced by Democrats and stunned moderate conservatives.

Politico published the draft, but it’s now been confirmed by the court that the text is authentic.

But the court stresses it doesn’t represent the final decision of the justices.

Even still, it’s a white hot issue across the United States.

Democrats are now scrambling to find a response to the news that abortion access for American women could now come to an end.

US President Joe Biden warns the decision. could have far wider implications.

“It’s a fundamental shift in American jurisprudence.”

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The Roe decision recognised that the right to personal privacy under the U.S. Constitution protects a woman’s decision to terminate her pregnancy.

“It becomes the law, and if what is written is what remains, it goes far beyond the concern of whether or not there is the right to choose,” Biden added.

“It goes to other basic rights – the right to marriage, the right to determine a whole range of things.”

The President is now urging voters at the upcoming midterms to elect lawmakers who support abortion rights so Congress can pass national legislation, making Roe permanent.

Protests have erupted across the United States, particularly in Washington, and outside the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile the court wants to know how this draft decision became public.

Chief Justice John Roberts has launched an investigation into how the draft was leaked, calling it a “betrayal.”