It is only a leak of a draft. Still, punches have already been thrown outside the US Supreme Court in the first standoff over justice Samuel Alito's 98-page argument in favour of overturning the 1973 ruling that legalised abortion in the United States. We ask whether the document leaked to Politico is a turning point for more than just reproductive rights.

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