Abortion after Dobbs
Learn about the Court's 2022 decision in Dobbs versus Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion.
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There may be no more controversial topic in contemporary constitutional law than abortion and the extent to which the Constitution protects the right of a pregnant woman to terminate a pregnancy without governmental interference. Roe versus Wade recognized a woman’s right to choose as part of the Court’s broader substantive-due-process jurisprudence. [410 U.S. 113 (1973).] In 1992, in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania versus Casey, [505 U.S. 833 (1992)], the Court upheld Roe’s...
