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 …


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 …


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 …


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, …


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.


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 · 2019 English

CDC conducts abortion surveillance to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions and number of abortion-related deaths in the United States. Period Covered: 2019. Description of …


UN: The United Nations · 5 September 1994 English

The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was convened under the auspices of the United Nations and was organized by a secretariat composed of the Population Division of the …


2018 English

Following the May 2018 Irish referendum largely in favour of abortion, only two European countries, Malta and Andorra, still do not give women the right to decide to end a …


Amnesty International · 3 May 2022

While moves to decriminalize and legalize abortion in places like Argentina, Ireland, Mexico and Colombia in the last few years have been a huge win for the global community, there …


Pew Research Center · 6 May 2022

Public attitudes about the legality of abortion are largely divided along partisan lines – and to a greater extent than in past decades.


7 June 2013

We use unique data on abortions performed in New York State from 1971–1975 to demonstrate that women travelled hundreds of miles for a legal abortion before Roe. A100- mile increase …


Guttmacher Institute · 2003 English

It is instructive to look back at the choices available—and not available—to women before abortion was made legal nationwide. In this special analysis article, published in the Guttmacher Report on …


The New England Journal of Medicine · 24 June 2022

Editorial from The New England Journal of Medicine in reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v Wade. The central …


Guttmacher Institute

Since the Supreme Court handed down its 1973 decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, states have constructed a lattice work of abortion law, codifying, regulating and limiting …


Guttmacher Institute

The abortion landscape is fragmented and increasingly polarized. Many states have abortion restrictions or bans in place that make it difficult, if not impossible, for people to get care. Other …


Guttmacher Institute

This resource tracks major developments in US state legislation and policy activity on all sexual and reproductive health topics, including abortion laws.


Guttmacher Institute

This page presents new Guttmacher evidence on who will be most impacted by the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade. It also includes information on the legal landscape …