ABORTION will likely become illegal or severely restricted in 26 states after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v Wade ruling on Friday.

The 1973 decision had provided a constitutional right to the procedure.

But Friday’s outcome – made by a conservative majority is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.

The 22 states that may implement total or near-total abortion restrictions include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Four more states – Florida, Indiana, Montana and Nebraska –  are also likely to ban abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.

Following the decision, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton immediately announced abortions were illegal in the Lone Star state.

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West Virginia’s lone clinic performing abortions stopped after Friday’s decision.

In Wisconsin, which has an 1849 abortion ban on the books, Planned Parenthood immediately halted all scheduled abortions at its clinics in Madison and Milwaukee following the high court’s ruling.

Mississippi’s only abortion clinic, which is at the center of the case, continued to see patients Friday.

But outside, men used a bullhorn to tell people inside the clinic that they would burn in hell.

Mississippi is one of 13 states, mainly in the South and Midwest, that already have so called ‘trigger’ laws on the books that ban abortion in the event Roe is overturned.

Another half-dozen states have near-total bans or prohibitions after 6 weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.

In roughly six other states, the fight will be over dormant abortion bans that were enacted before Roe was decided in 1973 or new proposals to sharply limit when abortions can be performed, according to research.

Associate Justice Samuel Alito was joined in his opinion by Justices Clarence ThomasNeil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.

In Friday’s ruling, Alito called Roe “egregiously wrong from the start”.

He said the Constitution “does not confer a right to abortion,” declaring that the decision should ultimately be left to the state to regulate.

“Abortion presents a profound moral question The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion.

“Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. The Court overrules those decisions and returns that authority to the people and their elected representatives.”

In a concurring opinion, Justice Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court should “reconsider the rulings that protect contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage.”

The decision comes after last month’s shocking leaked draft opinion that suggested the Supreme Court was poised to strike down the abortion legislation, according to Politico.

Nancy Pelosi on Friday held back tears as she branded the Supreme Court’s decision “slap in the face to women.”

Before it landed in front of the Supreme Court, the historic case stemmed from a 1969 lawsuit filed by an unmarried, pregnant woman.

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The woman, who wanted to terminate her pregnancy, sued a Texas district attorney in an effort to challenge an abortion ban in the state, which only allowed for an abortion if the woman’s life was at risk. 

The case worked its way through the courts and finally reached the highest court.

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