American abortion law owes much of its present form to the case of Roe v Wade in 1973. In Roe v Wade the Supreme Court held that a pregnant woman has a constitutional right, under the Fourteenth ...

Please click here for the latest updates. The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that guaranteed the right to abortion in the United States, undoing decades of ...

Shelley Lynn Thornton, now 51, is the daughter of Norma McCorvey, who was Jane Roe in the landmark Supreme Court case that secured the legal right to abortion For the first time, the child of Jane ...

In a separate ruling, the court then ruled 5-4 to overturn Roe v. Wade, with Chief Justice John Roberts switching sides. Some conservative lawmakers are flirting with banning people from obtaining ...

But given the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court – which hands the decision around the legality of abortions back to the states – the location of a college may now ...

The Supreme Court did more than overrule Roe v. Wade and allow states to ban abortion. The court showed how it views rights that aren't explicitly mentioned in the Constitution.

All of which made a series of posts from Harvey’s Twitter account last week, in the immediate aftermath of the leaked draft of a Supreme Court ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade, so surprising.

The results suggest that overturning Roe v. Wade affected not only abortion access but "decisions women are making about contraception as well," Xiao Xu, an associate professor of reproductive ...