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.


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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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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 …


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.


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 …