Overturning Roe v Wade

User icon Toby Green
25 June 2022
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Following the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade, a selection of resources to help explore the issue.


HBS: Heinrich Boll Foundation · 7 March 2022 English

Criminalisation and stigmatisation of abortion seekers is not only one of the most common gynaecological procedures, and providers threaten the availability of abortion services and but also the most effective …


24 June 2022 English

Thomas E. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et al. v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al., No. 19-1392, 597 U.S. ___ (2022), is a landmark …


Guttmacher Institute · 2006 English

This report presents an overview of a review of abortion in women's lives in the USA. After an introduction, it has chapters on: Abortion Before Legalization, Three Decades of Legal …


29 June 1992 English

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, et al. v. Robert P. Casey, et al., 505 U.S. 833 (1992), was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding …


22 January 1973 English

Jane Roe, et al. v. Henry Wade, District Attorney of Dallas County (410 U.S. 113 (1973)) was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled …


UNESCO Health and Education Resource Centre · 2003 English

In the 1973 landmark case Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court applied the core constitutional principle of privacy and liberty to a woman’s ability to terminate a pregnancy. In Roe, …


NWLC: National Women's Law Center · 20 January 2022 English

The Right to Contraception and the Right to Procreate Roe reaffirmed prior decisions protecting individuals’ rights to contraception and to decide whether to bear a child.4 Subsequent cases upholding the …


TCF: The Century Foundation · 28 September 2021 English

Executive Summary Medication abortion care is incredibly safe and effective, yet it is heavily restricted by the Food and Drug Administration and state-level abortion laws. This report examines the available …


CMA: Canadian Medical Association · 11 May 2022 English

Ottawa withheld federal funding from case,” said Sarah Munro, an assistant The ruling would mean that states can New Brunswick earlier this year because professor in the department of obstetrics …


AEI: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research · 2 November 2021 English

Polls on abortion reveal substantial continuity over a 50-year period, but opinion is complex. On the two major questions that have been asked for decades, opinion bulks in the middle.