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  1. 2 days ago · Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protected a right to have an abortion.

  2. 2 days ago · Roe v. Wade, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 1973, ruled (7–2) that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. The Court held that a set of Texas statutes criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a constitutional right to privacy.

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  3. 2 days ago · It’s been two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v.Wade, revoking the constitutional right to an abortion.With U.S. headlines dominated by the “abortion wars,” it’s easy to forget that on a global scale, the rollback of women’s health and rights has put the U.S. in a lonely category: it is one of only four nations to restrict abortion access in decades, alongside El ...

  4. 1 day ago · Hear the real recording of oral arguments in "Roe v. Wade", the case that defined a generation's fight for reproductive rights. This full recording takes yo...

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  5. 1 day ago · Decided by the Supreme Court in 1973, Roe v. Wade legalized abortion across the United States. The 7-2 decision came at the end of a decades-long struggle to reform—and later repeal—abortion laws. Although all of the justices understood that Roe addressed a profoundly important question, none of them imagined that it would later become a ...

  6. 5 days ago · Twenty-one states ban abortion or restrict the procedure earlier in pregnancy than the standard set by Roe v. Wade, which governed reproductive rights for nearly half a century until the...

  7. 5 days ago · In 1973, the court heard Roe v. Wade, a case in which a pregnant single woman (“Jane Roe” was a pseudonym for Norma McCorvey [1947–2017]) challenged the constitutionality of Texas’ abortion laws.