Now that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade – the 1973 decision constitutionally established the right to abortion – 22 states have laws or constitutional amendments that would take ...

Roe v. Wade guaranteed access to safe, legal abortions nationwide. The Supreme Court's decision on the Texas abortion law could set a new precedent.

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court officially struck down Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey, and the federal abortion protections that had come with them.. The following analysis was ...

U.S. abortion access, reproductive rights. Tracking abortion access in the United States: Since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the legality of abortion has been left to individual ...

Wade has been the focus of anti-abortion groups since the opinion came down in 1973, but the history of the movement started more than a century before Roe v. Wade , with roots in British common law.

The 1973 case of Roe v. Wade. In Texas in the 1960s, abortion was only legal if a mother’s life was in danger. So when Norma McCorvey, who would be referred to in her later lawsuit as “Jane ...

A majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has voted to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling Roe v. Wade that established the right to abortion nearly 50 years ago, according to a leaked draft opinion ...

President Biden addresses the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, June 24, 2022 at the White House. In overturning Roe, the court’s conservatives bucked the view of the majority ...

Roe v. Wade was the legal precedent from 1973 that made abortion legal across the US. Overturning Roe triggers a domino effect of social, legal, and economic changes.

An estimated 5,000 people marched around the Minnesota Capitol building protesting the US Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in St. Paul, Minn., on Jan. 22, 1973. AP.

Roe v. Wade Live Updates: Supreme Court Draft Opinion Would Overturn Abortion Ruling. Full coverage of the leaked draft of the Supreme Court opinion, indicating the 1973 precedent may be overturned.

Many who oppose Roe v. Wade today, and even some who support it, argue that the 1973 ruling short-circuited a running debate over abortion, a debate that should have been allowed to play out in ...