Alexia Korberg, Daniella Lorenzo and Tatiana Laing assess the struggles to protect reproduction rights in the US
US abortion rights have been relatively stable for the last half-century since the Supreme Court recognized in the landmark case Roe v. Wade [1973] 410 US 113 that the constitutional “right of privacy . . . is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy”.
Although the US Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed this core principle in a series of cases over the subsequent decades, the current Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, has recently signaled it may revisit this foundational constitutional right, upon which over than two generations of Americans have relied.
Abortion rights, historically
Abortion was legal...
“Further abortion restrictions have already been passed in 2021 than in any other year in US. history, even with Roe…”
