Roe v Wade
1973 abortion ruling
Roe v.
Wade was a 1973 U.S.
Supreme Court decision that established a constitutional right to abortion, ruling that the right to privacy extended to a woman's decision to terminate a pregnancy.
The case name became shorthand for abortion rights generally: They're trying to overturn Roe.
The Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022, returning abortion regulation to individual states.
- abortionEnding a pregnancy
- reproductive rightsBodily autonomy in family planning
- abortion accessAvailability of pregnancy termination
- Supreme CourtNation's top tribunal
- constitutionalHealth-promoting walk
constitutional right · rights · right to privacy · overturn · privacy · bodily autonomy · landmark · ruling · decision · reproductive · choice · pro-life · pro-choice · Planned Parenthood · trimester · fetus · viability · undue burden
- Supreme Court CasesMarbury v. Madison, Brown v Board, Brown v. Board, Miranda v Arizona, Miranda v. Arizona
- 70sdisco, bell-bottoms, Saturday Night Fever, pet rock, leisure suits
- feminismfeminism, feminist theory, gender equality, women's rights, feminist novels
- US Lawattorney, lawyer, lawsuit, jury, federal court
- women's rightssuffrage movement, women's suffrage, women's rights, gender equality, feminism
- 1973Watergate, oil crisis, Yom Kippur War, Skylab, Secretariat
Roe v Wadeoriginalism
Interpreting by founding-era meaning
textualism · judicial restraint · states' rights · Tenth Amendment
Roe v WadeMarch for Life
Annual anti-abortion demonstration
pro-life movement · right to life · fetal rights · sanctity of life