Directions: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

When a democracy rolls back a constitutional right that has been in place for almost half a century, it must consider itself in deep ___(1)___. The U.S. stands at that fraught juncture now, after its Supreme Court, in a 6-3 majority, ___(2)___ the 1973 ruling in Roe vs Wade, and took away the constitutional right to abortion. In one blow, on June 24, it withdrew from women anywhere in the country their ___(3)___ to reproductive and bodily autonomy. With Roe, as well as the 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood vs Casey that ___(4)___ Roe, gone, the court returned “the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives”. States can now decide whether to ___(5)___ abortion and at what stage in pregnancy and under what circumstances. The fight over abortion has been the U.S.’s most passionately waged ideological ___(6)___. With a focus that denies any space for compassion or respect for liberty, conservatives have ___(7)___ the task of having Roe overturned for decades. With the court now having ___(8)___ a conservative supermajority, the decision had been ___(9)___ — some Republican-ruled States have started banning abortion, with trigger laws in place in anticipation of such a judgment. The other Red States will ___(10)___.