French President Emmanuel Macron voiced his "solidarity with women whose freedoms are today challenged" by the US Supreme Court, while Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde said that legal and safe abortion was a fundamental right.

US President Joe Biden himself deplored that the top court has "made the United States an outlier among developed nations in the world" as he vowed to keep up efforts to secure legal abortion.

The United States was one of the first countries to grant a nationwide right to abortion with the 1973 Roe v.

The United States was also an outlier in its sweeping right to abortion throughout pregnancy, although advocates stress that few doctors perform late-term pregnancies except in exceptional circumstances.

The Supreme Court decision, he said, "will save millions of innocent, unborn lives."

David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee and a former British foreign secretary, said the Supreme Court decision "marks a dark day for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy not just within the United States but the world over."