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Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), [1] 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 to have an abortion prior to the point of fetal viability.
Norma Leah Nelson McCorvey (September 22, 1947 – February 18, 2017), also known by the pseudonym "Jane Roe", was the plaintiff in the landmark 1973 American legal case Roe v. Wade in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual state laws banning abortion were unconstitutional .
Reproductive rights supporters marched in Phoenix to mark Roe v. Wade’s anniversary in January 2024. Arizona voters approved an amendment restoring abortion access up to fetal viability in the fall.
The landmark Supreme Court case has been overruled. Here, we explain what the court case means, what it accomplished, and what might happen next.
Albert Wynn and Gloria Feldt on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to rally for legal abortion on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The United States abortion-rights movement (also known as the pro-choice movement) is a sociopolitical movement in the United States supporting the view that a woman should have the legal right to an elective abortion, meaning the right to terminate her pregnancy ...
We decided to very strategically put this at the center of politics: prove the case that this is not only the right thing to do, but the politically smart thing to do, by drawing a contrast ...
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 and more than a dozen states have banned or restricted abortion, the usage of abortion pills has been on the rise.
McCorvey v. Hill, 385 F.3d 846 (5th Cir. 2004), [1] was a case in which the original litigant in Roe v. Wade, [2] Norma McCorvey, also known as 'Jane Roe', requested the overturning of Roe.