The Roe ruling effectively repealed laws that banned the procedure outright and sparked decades of religious and moral conflict over women’s bodies. The precedent established by Roe and reaffirmed by ...

Texas, as well as neighboring Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, will outlaw abortion within days to weeks. The procedure will still be available in Kansas and New Mexico. For those seeking abortions, ...

“The best defense of Roe ,” Barrett said – and what she called the “commonly thought” defense of Roe – was “that it was grounded in the word ‘liberty’ in the due process clause,” which states that “we ...

In 1921, the future Supreme Court justice Benjamin Cardozo wrote a book examining how judges write their opinions. Judicial opinions, he asserted, did not simply reflect this or that legal theory but ...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett called out flaws in Roe v. Wade in a new interview while discussing her vote to overturn the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling. "The problem with Roe was … there's nothing ...