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.


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.


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …