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Roe v. Wade Overturned: Dobbs v. Jackson
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What happened
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that the Constitution confers no right to abortion, overturning Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) and returning the regulation of abortion to the states.
Why it matters
Dobbs ended nearly fifty years of a nationwide constitutional right to abortion — the first time the Court had ever withdrawn such a right — reshaping American law, politics, and health care and triggering a patchwork of state bans and protections.