The anonymous plaintiff in the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, she became a symbol for abortion rights, though she later changed her views. By Robert D. McFadden Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in the case ...

(RNS) — A new book details how an attempt to soften abortion politics started an all-out assault on reproductive rights. (RNS) — Two years ago last week, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the ...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett defended one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most consequential decisions in recent years — the overturning of federal protections on abortion rights — in her first television ...

In his letter published March 7, Steve Strege called the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Roe Vs. Wade decision one made by seven men "who suddenly discovered the 'right' to murder innocents." The following ...

Millions of women in the US will lose the constitutional right to abortion, after the Supreme Court overturned its 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision. The judgement paves the way for individual states to ...

The overturning of Roe v. Wade, the 50-year-old case that upheld the constitutional right to an abortion, marked a watershed moment in the history of reproductive rights and triggered spates of ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Over its half-century of public life, Roe volume Wade took on meanings that extended far beyond its original purpose of protecting the privacy ...

Few decisions in American history have done more to undermine judicial credibility and democratic self-government than Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973). In that landmark case, the Supreme Court ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that the U.S. abortion rate fell to its lowest level in post-Roe v. Wade history in 2013, the most recent year that data is available.

The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. The high court sided with Mississippi on Friday in a case concerning its ban on abortion beyond 15 weeks of pregnancy. With the ruling, the court ...

Maternity homes have seen a resurgence in the two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Across the country, homes are sprouting up or expanding. Christian anti-abortion advocates want ...

WASHINGTON (WCSC) — The U.S. Supreme Court issued its pivotal decision in Roe v. Wade, recognizing a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, on Jan. 22, 1973. The Court’s 7-2 majority found that ...