The Supreme Court’s decision to overrule Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision legalising abortion, was a seismic disruption of the legal, political and medical status quo in the United States. But it was not the only example in the court’s 2021-22 term of a determination by its conservatives, fortified by the addition of three Donald Trump appointees, to hand down bold but polarising decisions.
07 July 2022, The Tablet
Roe v Wade – the consequence of a polarised court in a polarised country
The repudiation of Roe was in a provocative class by itself, the dismantling of a precedent almost half-a-century old.
Norma Leah McCorvey, better known as Jane Roe in the landmark 1973 abortion ruling.
ALAMY/GLOBE PHOTOS/ZU, © DONALD SANDER
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