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org/roe-v-wade/
Center for reproductive rights
Roe v. Wade
The landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling recognizing the right to abortion.
In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade recognized that the
decision whether to continue or end a pregnancy belongs to the individual, not the
government. Roe held that the specific guarantee of “liberty” in the Fourteenth
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which protects individual privacy, includes the
right to abortion prior to fetal viability.
Since Roe, the Supreme Court has repeatedly reaffirmed that the Constitution
protects for abortion as an essential liberty, which is tied to other liberty rights to
make personal decisions about family, relationships, and bodily autonomy.
U.S. Supreme Court Takes Away the Constitutional Right to
Abortion
In June 2022, in a devastating decision that will reverberate for generations, the U.S.
Supreme Court has abandoned its duty to protect fundamental rights and
overturned Roe v. Wade, ruling there is no constitutional right to abortion. The
ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization abandons nearly 50
years of precedent and marks the first time in history that the Supreme Court has
taken away a fundamental right.
The Court’s decision will likely lead to half of U.S. states immediately taking action
to ban abortion outright, forcing people to travel hundreds and thousands of miles to
access abortion care or to carry pregnancies against their will, a grave violation of
their human rights.
https://www.theguardian.com
Abortion rights across the US: we
track where laws stand in every state
Carter Sherman and Andrew Witherspoon
Fri 10 Nov 2023
https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com
Understanding why women seek abortions in
the US
Antonia Biggs, Published 05 july 2013
Background
The current political climate with regards to abortion in the US, along with the economic
recession may be affecting women’s reasons for seeking abortion, warranting a new
investigation into the reasons why women seek abortion.
Methods
Data for this study were drawn from baseline quantitative and qualitative data from
the Turnaway Study, an ongoing, five-year, longitudinal study evaluating the health and
socioeconomic consequences of receiving or being denied an abortion in the US. While the
study has followed women for over two full years, it relies on the baseline data which were
collected from 2008 through the end of 2010. The sample included 954 women from 30
abortion facilities across the US who responded to two open ended questions regarding the
reasons why they wanted to terminate their pregnancy approximately one week after seeking
an abortion.
Results
Women’s reasons for seeking an abortion fell into 11 broad themes. The predominant themes
identified as reasons for seeking abortion included financial reasons (40%), timing (36%),
partner related reasons (31%), and the need to focus on other children (29%). Most women
reported multiple reasons for seeking an abortion crossing over several themes (64%). Using
mixed effects multivariate logistic regression analyses, we identified the social and
demographic predictors of the predominant themes women gave for seeking an abortion.
Conclusions
Study findings demonstrate that the reasons women seek abortion are complex and
interrelated, similar to those found in previous studies. While some women stated only one
factor that contributed to their desire to terminate their pregnancies, others pointed to a
myriad of factors that, cumulatively, resulted in their seeking abortion. As indicated by the
differences we observed among women’s reasons by individual characteristics, women seek
abortion for reasons related to their circumstances, including their socioeconomic status, age,
health, parity and marital status. It is important that policy makers consider women’s
motivations for choosing abortion, as decisions to support or oppose such legislation could
have profound effects on the health, socioeconomic outcomes and life trajectories of women
facing unwanted pregnancies
https://reproductiverights.org/roe-v-wade/
Center for reproductive rights
International Human Rights and Abortion: Spotlight on Dobbs v. Jackson
Women’s Health
©Zuma Press/Alamy
11.24.2021
https://www.amnesty.org/
Women’s rights are human rights!
We are all entitled to human rights. These include the right to live free from violence and
discrimination ; to enjoy the highest attainable standart oh physical and mental health ; to be
educated ; to own property ; to vote ; and to earn an equal wage.
But across the globe many women and girls still face discrimination on the basis of sex and
gender. Gender inequality underpins many problems which disproportionately affect women
and girls, such as domestic and sexual violence, lower pay, lack of access to education, and
inadequate healthcare.
For many years women’s rights movements have fought hard to address this inequality,
campaigning to change laws or taking to the streets to demand their rights are respected. And
new movements have flourished in the digital age, such as the #MeToo campaign which
highlights the prevalence of gender-based violence and sexual harassment.
