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But the Chief Justice, John Roberts, stressed that there were wider issues at stake. He said the law was specifically crafted to nullify the Supreme Court's precedents on abortion, banning it at roughly six weeks of pregnancy rather than the court's standard of two trimesters - in effect denying women a constitutional right.