Abortion in America: How a Nearly 50-Year Right Was Overturned
In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court did something it had never done before in the context of a long-recognised constitutional right: it took one away. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had established a constitutional right to abortion, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey,…