In the January 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decisions Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the Court affirmed that the decision to terminate a pregnancy was a fundamental right conferred by the Constitution, to be made solely by a woman and her doctor, and that after the first trimester,...
It is easy for Americans to forget that illegal abortion was common before the 1973 Supreme Court decisions that legalized the procedure across the nation—and that denying women access to legal abortion does not prevent them from having abortions, but just increases the likelihood that they will...
In celebration of the anniversary of the Roe decision on January 22, we kick off [email protected] by spending the month looking back at some of the ways abortion has been covered in the journal. From the very beginning, the topic has been central to Perspectives, as well as to...
