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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.The decision, unthinkable just a few years ago, was the culmination of decades of efforts by abortion opponents, made possible by an emboldened right side of the court that has been fortified by three appointees of former President Donald Trump.POLL: Majority of Americans dont want Roe overt stanley cup urnedThe ruling came more than a month after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicating the court was prepared to take this momentous step.It puts the court at odds with a majority of Americans who favored preserving Roe, according to opinion polls.Alito, in the final opinion issued Friday, wrote that Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to abortion, were wrong the day they were decided and must be overtur stanley cup ned.Read the full Supreme Court opinion here: Left: FILE P stanley cup HOTO: A visitor runs across the Supreme Court Plaza while attempting to catch their school group, at the U.S. Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 22, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo Related Oqje WATCH: Biden seeks unity at Summit of the Americas, finds discord
WASHINGTON 鈥?A Democratic senator is seeking marketing information, sales records and studies from manufacturers of the top-selling opioid products in the United States to determine whether drugmakers have contr stanley cup ibuted to an overuse of the pain killers.Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri said that sales of prescripti adidas campus on opioids have quadrupled since 1999, taking a financial toll on the government and a deadly toll on thousands of consumers.McCaskill said previous government and media reports show an industry not focused on preventing abuse but on fostering addiction. She is investigating whether such practices continue today.Some of the records she is asking for from the five companies include the sales rep expenses for entertaining physicians, payments made to health care advocacy groups, as well as marketing and business plans.We have an obligation to everyone devastated by this epidemic to find answers, McCaskill said in a prepared statement issued Tuesday. All of this didn ;t happen overnight. It happened one prescription and marketing program at a time.More than 52,000 people died of a drug overdose in 2015, and roughly two-thirds of them had used prescription opioids like OxyContin or Vicodin or illegal drugs like heroin, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those overdoses have jumped 33 percent in the past five years alone, with some states reporting the death toll had do stanley cup ubled or more.Congress worked on a bipartisan