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.


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.


Center for Political Accountability · 20 October 2021 English

Oct 20, 2021,12:00pm EDT|80 views Energy Companies Caught In The Middle With Controversial Abortion Laws Energy Companies Caught In The Middle With Controversial Abortion Laws (forbes.com) University of Houston Energy …


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 …


NWLC: National Women's Law Center · 21 January 2022 English

As the Court said, the constitutional right “is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.”6 The Court also held that the right to …


PRRI: Public Religion Research Institute · 26 October 2021 English

Only 29% of Republicans today say that American culture and way of life have changed for the better since the 1950s, a substantial decrease from 46% in 2020 and a …


Heritage Foundation · 17 November 2021 English

To that end, Means made two primary claims that the Supreme Court would later embrace: American women enjoyed a “liberty of abortion” under the common law “at every stage of …


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 …


PPFA: Planned Parenthood Federation of America · 2014 English

This four-page brief sets out the history and impact of the landmark Roe v Wade decision of the US Supreme Court on January 22, 1973. Roe v. Wade was a …


CRR: Center for Reproductive Rights · 2018 English

The Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized that any concept of liberty must include the right to make intimate decisions about family, relationships, bodily integrity, and autonomy. Abortion sits within that …


CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 23 February 2022 English

This report presents maternal mortality rates for 2020 based on data from the National Vital Statistics System. A maternal death is defined by the World Health Organization as, “the death …