Abortion Supreme Court Cases List
Read important U.S. Supreme Court decisions involving Abortion & Reproductive Rights and learn about how the Justices have shaped the law in this area. A case in which the Court struck down several Texas laws that criminalized abortion, holding that laws that impose an undue burden on a womans right to seek an abortion violate her fundamental right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
strikes down a city ordinance restricting access to abortion. Among several holdings, the Court strikes down provisions of the law requiring minors to obtain parental consent for an abortion without a confidential alternative bypass procedure, imposing a 24-hour waiting period, requiring physicians to give women biased information designed to ... Supreme Court cases have shaped and reshaped reproductive rights in the U.S.
Learn about Supreme Court decisions for abortion, birth control, and more at FindLaw's Family Law Center. Following is a brief summary of United States Supreme Court abortion decisions commencing with Roe v. Wade, giving the citations, date, and holding.
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).
Since its founding in 1992, the Center has shaped legal precedent on reproductive rights through victories in regional, federal and local courts around the world, as well at the United Nations, and has been involved in every major U.S. Supreme Court abortion case. This litigation tracker presents up-to-date information on the ongoing litigation in state and federal courts involving access to contraception and abortion.
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey505 U.S. 833 (1992)
Opinion files and related administrative records documenting cases heard during White's tenure on the Supreme Court, including material on cases involving the "Miranda law", abortion, child pornography, freedom of speech, homosexuality, racial bias, and liability of news organizations. Buoyed by the Supreme Courts 63 anti- abortion majority, state legislators raced to enact abortion restrictions. Asof December 31, 108 abortion restrictions had been enacted in 19 states