News that the Supreme Court may be ready to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights ruling, prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom and other lawmakers to vow to protect women's rights in California. On ...

The case Roe v. Wade was brought by a woman named Norma McCorvey who went under the pseudonym Jane Roe. She sought an abortion in Texas, where it was illegal except to save a mother's life. May 22, ...

CLEVELAND — Three years ago last month, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, dismantled nearly five decades of abortion rights precedent. In the absence of federal abortion ...

Three years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued one of its most consequential decisions in decades, overturning Roe v. Wade and ending the federal constitutional right to abortion. The Dobbs v.

The Hyde Amendment may have become a litmus test in the Democratic presidential primary, but that urgency to get rid of it apparently hasn’t reached the House of Representatives. The Democratic-led ...

Abortion rights activists are shocked that their 50-year efforts could fall. Heather Booth was just 18 years old when she joined the civil rights movement. A member of the Student Nonviolent ...

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Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Since the fall of Roe, eleven states have expanded access to reproductive rights ...

Abortion foes worried before his election that President Donald Trump had moved on, now that Roe v. Wade is overturned and abortion policy, as he said on the campaign trail, "has been returned to the ...

The number of abortions performed in Ohio did not spike after voters approved a constitutional amendment protecting access to reproductive rights. The Ohio Department of Health reported 21,829 ...