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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …