Jacinda Ardern condemns 'incredibly upsetting' decision by US Supreme Court to overturn abortion laws - after Grace Tame declared women are no longer free

Jacinda Ardern said world was 'moving backwards' after SCOTUS ruling

She said the decision to overturn abortion laws was 'incredibly upsetting'

Grace Tame condemned the SCOTUS for overturning Roe v. Wade on Friday

The former Australian of the Year revealed new details about her rape

Tame had her period four times before being raped by teacher Nicolaas Bester

She wrote that not everyone has a 'choice' in whether they have unprotected sex

SCOTUS decision means abortion is no longer a protected right in the US

Individual states in the US will now have the power to outlaw or legalise abortion

Jacinda Ardern has called out the 'incredibly upsetting' decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn abortion rights.

The New Zealand Prime Minister said the world needed to progress and not 'move backwards', after constitutional protections for abortions were scrapped in the United States.

'Watching the removal of a woman's fundamental right to make decisions over their own body is incredibly upsetting,' she said in a statement on Saturday.

'Here in New Zealand we recently legislated to decriminalise abortion and treat it as a health rather than criminal issue.

'That change was grounded in the fundamental belief that it's a woman's right to choose.

'To see that principle now lost in the United States feels like a loss for women everywhere.'

Grace Tame had also weighed in on the debate, sharing a devastating detail about the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands her high school teacher.

'A part of democracy died today. Women's sense of freedom too. Worldwide,' she tweeted.

'I'd had maybe 4 periods before I lost my virginity to a 58 year-old paedophile who raped me, sometimes without protection.

'For some our womanhood is taken from us before we even have it. And that is not a choice.'

The sexual abuse survivor's revelation came after the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that cemented women's constitutional right to abortion by legalising the procedure nationwide.

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