Health Affairs January 17, 2023
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the Unites States released its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and upending nearly 50 years of precedent recognizing the constitutional right to abortion. The reversal of a multi-generational constitutional precedent did not happen overnight, but rather was the final straw in a long-haul legislative push to set up a direct challenge to Roe at the Supreme Court. According to the Guttmacher Institute, 479 abortion restrictions were enacted in 33 states between January 2011 and May 2019, accounting for more than a third of all abortion restrictions enacted since the 1973 Roe decision.
After the Supreme Court gained a conservative majority...
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