What Is the Supreme Court Case That Overturned Abortion Rights?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "The result," wrote the Pew Research Center, "was that a state's interest in and regulation of potential life could now arguably extend throughout a woman's pregnancy."
55% : After that, the state may "regulate, and even proscribe, abortion except where necessary ... for the preservation of the life or health of the mother.
55% : Planned Parenthood v. Danforth, 1976
55% : Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 1992
51% : Another 13 had loosened restrictions, according to Planned Parenthood.
49% : Prior to the 1850s, most US states applied British common law, which permitted abortion before "quickening," when a pregnant woman can first feel the movements of the fetus, at about 15 to 20 weeks.
42% : Read More: When Will the Supreme Court Rule on Abortion?
42% : United States v. Vuitch, 1971 Two years prior to Roe, the Supreme Court ruled that a DC law banning abortion was not "unconstitutionally vague" when it made an exception for the health of the mother.
41% : in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization addresses a 2018 Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks, much earlier than the timeline established by Roe and later cases.
41% : By 1900, however, most states had classified abortion as a felony except in limited circumstances -- typically if the mother's life was at stake or in the case of rape or incest.
37% : A reproductive-rights activist outside the Supreme Court, protesting a Texas law banning abortion after six weeks.
37% : This was one of several cases in the 1980s that rejected informed-consent provisions requiring patients be given information on the medical risks and alternatives to abortion and be subject to a 24-hour waiting period.
35% : The new ruling reverts regulation to the states, 26 of which have statutes banning or severely restricting abortion.
35% : In 1969, attorneys for a pregnant Dallas woman filed suit with the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas challenging the state law banning abortion except when the mother's life was at risk.
32% : In March 2018, the Mississippi Legislature passed HB 1510, the Gestational Age Act, which banned abortion after the first 15 weeks.
20% : "It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives," Justice Samuel Alito delivered in the opinion for the court, which was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

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