1971 – The case is filed by Norma McCorvey, known in court documents as Jane Roe, against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County, who enforced a Texas law that prohibited abortion, except ...

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A bill passed by Alabama legislators that would outlaw nearly all abortions in the state is the strictest such measure in the United States. If signed into law, it will ...

Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right of pregnant women to choose ...

The fall of Roe didn’t create abortion inequality—it exposed the deep, enduring disparities that had long shaped who could access care and who could not. A protest marking the second anniversary of ...

Critics say the immunity ruling is flawed for reasons similar to those the court gave for overturning Roe, which had established a right to abortion. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington In the ...

Protestors demonstrate for abortion rights on the second anniversary of the decision by the United States Supreme to overturn Roe v. Wade.Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Donald Trump repeated his ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story is part of the Life After Roe package, which looks at the surprising ...

June 24, 2024, marked two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating the federal right to abortion across the country. This devastating news not only had an immediate ...

WASHINGTON — Republican-appointed Justice Samuel Alito heartily defended the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed a national right to abortion, and lamented the death ...