On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending nearly 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion. The Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health ruling is expected to result in abortion bans in nearly half the states.
Below are resources from across Harvard University on what the historic ruling means for reproductive rights, abortion access, and other protected civil liberties, as well as the impact it will have on privacy, politics, and SCOTUS legitimacy.
After Roe: What’s next for abortion access, law, and politics
In overturning Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court has ignited fundamental legal and political questions and radically shifted the healthcare landscape. In an event presented jointly by HSPH and Reuters, a panel of experts from across Harvard assessed the fallout, evaluate a variety of responses to the ruling, and share their roadmaps to a post-Roe America.
Additional Research & Insights
- Grappling with public health impacts of Supreme Court decisions, The Harvard Gazette
- Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Overturning Roe v. Wade, The FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
- Abortion access and policy after Roe, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- How Roe got to be Roe, The Harvard Gazette
- Schlesinger adjusts plans for Roe v. Wade commemoration to new reality, The Harvard Gazette
- How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate, Harvard Business School
- Striving for impassioned, but reasoned, post-Roe conversation on abortion, The Harvard Gazette
- How a bioethicist and doctor sees abortion, The Harvard Gazette
- How total abortion ban puts maternal health at risk, The Harvard Gazette
- Abortion law, suicide rate study adds to raging debate. But are we missing point? The Harvard Gazette
- In the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ruled states should decide the legality of abortion, voters at the state level have been doing just that: 4 essential reads, The Conversation
- Restricting abortion hurts existing children [Jane Mansbridge, HKS] Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- New COVID States Project Report: The Dobbs Decision, Support for Abortion, and 2022 Voting [Matthew A. Baum, HKS; Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Northeastern University; Alauna C. Safarpour, Shorenstein Center; Katherine Ognyanova, Rutgers University; Roy H. Perlis, Massachusetts General Hospital] Shorenstein Center
- SCOTUS Revisits Abortion: Legal Strategies in Dobbs Oral Arguments [Rachel Rebouché, Temple University Beasley School of Law; Catherine Glenn Foster, Americans United for Life; Sherif Girgis, Notre Dame Law School; Michele Goodwin, University of California, Irvine School of Law; Mary Ziegler, Florida State University College of Law] Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School
- Dobbs v. Jackson: Understanding the Post-Roe Landscape [I. Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law School; Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School; Jeannie Suk Gersen, Harvard Law School; Louise P. King, Harvard Medical School; Mary Ziegler, University of California Davis School of Law] Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School
- Conference: The Age of Roe | Session 1: International Contexts [Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Jane Kamensky, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Jonathan Trumbull, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Fiona de Londras, Birmingham Law School; Ruby Yuen Shan Lai, Lingnan University (Hong Kong); Donald T. Critchlow, Arizona State University; Alicia Ely Yamin, Harvard Law School] Harvard Radcliffe Institute
- Conference: The Age of Roe | Session 2: Race and Class [Khiara M. Bridges, UC Berkeley School of Law; MT Dávila, Merrimack College; Melissa J. Wilde, University of Pennsylvania; Jeannie Suk Gersen, Harvard Law School] Harvard Radcliffe Institute
- Conference: The Age of Roe | Session 3: American Public Life [Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Calvin University; Aziza Ahmed, Boston University School of Law; Daniel K. Williams, University of West Georgia; Andrew R. Lewis, University of Cincinnati] Harvard Radcliffe Institute
- Conference: The Age of Roe | Session 4: Visions of the Future [Evelynn Hammonds, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; I. Glenn Cohen, Harvard Law School; Erika Bachiochi, The Wollstonecraft Project; Joanna Erdman, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University (Canada); Sherif Girgis, Notre Dame Law School; Melissa Murray, New York University School of Law; Louise P. King, Harvard Medical School; Charles Camosy, Creighton University School of Medicine; Monica McLemore, University of Washington School of Nursing; Jill Lepore, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Mary Ziegler, UC Davis School of Law] Harvard Radcliffe Institute
- The Dark History of Eugenics Behind the Dobbs Decision [Jamie Marsella, PhD candidate of the history of science, Harvard University] GSAS' Colloquy Podcast