On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in the landmark case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — overturning the federal right to abortion. Since then, states have taken steps to either protect or further undermine access to reproductive health care and abortion services.
Our co-faculty director, Michele Goodwin, and other experts have provided extensive analysis and commentary on the impact of Dobbs as well as abortion and reproductive rights around the world: Oscar A. Cabrera, Sonia L. Canzater, Susan Crockin, Rolonda Donelson, Ivonne Garza, Lawrence O. Gostin, Natalia Acevedo Guerrero, Natasha Martín Lauletta, Francesca Nardi, Gloria Orrego-Hoyos, Aiseosa Osaghae, Sheela Ranganathan, Suhasini Ravi, Rebecca Reingold, Silvia Serrano-Guzmán, Andrew Twinamatsiko, Sarah Wetter.
What to Know
- The O’Neill Institute, Aiseosa Osaghae, Rebecca Reingold, Sonia L. Canzater, Dobbs’ Toll on OB-GYN’s Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being
- The O’Neill Institute, Aiseosa Osaghae, Rebecca Reingold, Sonia L. Canzater, Dobbs’ Toll on Black OB-GYNs: Analyzing New Challenges Amid Legal Uncertainty
- Mother Jones, With This Week’s Abortion Case, Supreme Court Faces Grim Reality of Overturning Roe
- Legal Talk, SideBar Podcast Welcomes Dr. Michelle Goodwin to Discuss the Criminalization of Motherhood in America
- JAMA Health Forum, Health Is on the Ballot in the Presidential Election
- NBC4 Washington, 50 Years After Roe, It’s Up to States to Ensure a Nationwide Right to Abortion
- Bloomberg Law, Tensions Flare on Abortion, Doctor Rights in HHS Conscience Plan
- KQED, How Abortion is Reshaping American Elections After Dobbs
- Axios, How the next Republican president could stop most abortions without Congress
- Scripps News, Challenging Restrictive Abortion Bans
- Law360, A Look Back At The Abortion Battles Of 2023
- NBC News, Morning News NOW: Full Broadcast – Dec. 14
- Associated Press, A Black woman was criminally charged after a miscarriage. It shows the perils of pregnancy post-Roe
- MSNBC, ‘The risks of being pregnant in the U.S.’: Recapping attacks on reproductive freedom in 2023
- Bloomberg Law, Abortion, Drug Pricing Top Biden List of 2024 Health Challenges
- The New Republic, When a Failed Pregnancy Becomes a Crime
- Mother Jones, What Happens If We Actually Treat Fetuses Like People?
- MSNBC, ‘We’ve become so far removed’: Goodwin on the realities of abortion
- MSNBC, Unnecessary surgeries instead of abortion: ‘It’s real life. It’s no longer science fiction’
- Bloomberg Law, Abortion Pill Case Hits on Doctors’ Conscience Objection Shield
- WESA, As abortion restrictions increase, Pitt study finds more young people seek sterilization
- Law360, Abortion Litigation To Watch As Dobbs Decision Turns 1
- JAMA, Roe v Wade’s 50th Anniversary: New Legal Frontiers for Safeguarding Reproductive Freedoms
- JAMA, One Year After Dobbs—Vast Changes to the Abortion Legal Landscape
- JAMA, Abortion Is Health Care
- Health Affairs, Biden Administration Finalizes Rule To Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy
- Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol, Emerging post-Dobbs liability concerns for providers handling embryos
The October 2023 Supreme Court Term
- O’Neill Institute, Michele Goodwin, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Rebecca Reingold, O’Neill Institute’s Experts on Today’s Supreme Court Ruling on Abortion Pill Mifepristone
- Scientific American, Abortion Pill Access Is Still Under Threat After SCOTUS Ruling, Legal Experts Warn
- Democracy Now!, Supreme Court Protects Access to Mifepristone, But War on Abortion Rights Continues to Escalate
- Spectrum News, Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Challenge to Abortion Medication Mifepristone
- ABC News, Supreme Court Decides Against Attempt To Restrict Access to Abortion Pill
- The O’Neill Institute, Suhasini Ravi, Rebecca Reingold, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine: Recapping the Supreme Court’s Oral Argument
- The O’Neill Institute, Sheela Ranganathan, Rebecca Reingold, Emily Schneider, Threats to EMTALA: Unpacking the Oral Arguments in Idaho v. United States
- Mother Jones, This Supreme Court Term, Health and Safety Are on the Line
- The Guardian, US supreme court hearing not a success for anti-abortion doctors, experts say
- KTVU, SCOTUS hears arguments in case against Mifepristone
- Democracy Now!, Supreme Court Seems Set to Preserve Access to Mifepristone in Likely Defeat for Abortion Foes
- NOTUS, Two Conservative Justices Said Federal Law Might Give Fetuses Rights
- MSNBC, Deadline White House: Supreme Court to hear case over common abortion pill
- Axios, Supreme Court abortion pill case puts FDA drug review power at risk
- Bloomberg Law, Red States Wading Into Abortion Pill Row Test Justices’ Posture
- Scientific American, How the Supreme Court’s Mifepristone Ruling Could Affect Abortion Access and Future Drug Approvals
- WBUR, Here & Now: Supreme Court looks at abortion pill mifepristone
- NBC News, Supreme Court may rely on ‘procedural punt’ in abortion pill case, says legal expert
- KTVU, SCOTUS hears arguments in case against Mifepristone
- The Guardian, US supreme court hearing not a success for anti-abortion doctors, experts say
- Democracy Now!, Supreme Court Seems Set to Preserve Access to Mifepristone in Likely Defeat for Abortion Foes
- The Hoya, Medical, Legal Experts Consider Human Rights Implications of Murky Medical Exceptions to Abortion Bans at Online Talk
- The University of Tulsa, Law Students, Faculty Examine Reproductive Justice
Responses at the State Level
- The O’Neill Institute, Rolonda Donelson, Rebecca Reingold, Creeping Personhood: Analyzing the Impact of Alabama Supreme Court’s Decision on IVF
- KCRW, Press Play with Madeleine Brand: Abortion’s legal and political future after Arizona Supreme Court upholds 1864 ban
- MSNBC, New chaos as states reckon with abortion bans
- MSNBC, ‘Bridge too far’: Louisiana passes bill to make abortion pill a controlled dangerous substance
- Axios, Red state providers’ new abortion dilemma
- MSNBC, The Last Word: Oklahoma Supreme Court Keeps Anti-Abortion Laws on Hold While Challenge is Pending
- Bloomberg Law, US Enforcement of Emergency Abortion Rule Halted in Texas (2)
- KALW, Your Call: 51 years after Roe, abortion is now illegal in 15 states
- Ms. Magazine, Welcome to the New Jane Crow
- ABC News, Professor calls Alabama Supreme Court ruling on frozen embryos ‘uncharted territory’
- MSNBC, Experts unpack the implications of the Alabama Supreme Court ruling on IVF
- KTVU, Congress debates federal IVF protections, fertility care
- Slate, The IVF Decision We Should Have Seen Coming
- Slate, The Alabama IVF Ban Conversation Is Missing the Bigger Point
- KCRW, Press Play with Madeleine Brand: Abortion’s legal and political future after Arizona Supreme Court upholds 1864 ban
- American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Alabama Supreme Court Rules Frozen Embryos are “Unborn Children” and admonishes IVF’s “Wild West” treatment
Access to Abortion Medication
- The Washington Post, Justice Dept.: Postal Service may deliver abortion pills in any state
- Bloomberg Law, Biden Toughens Abortion Rights Support, but Access Falls Short
- CNBC, The FDA’s power to approve drugs faces sweeping challenge in lawsuit seeking to pull abortion pill from U.S. market
- MedPage Today, A Ban on the Abortion Drug Mifepristone Is Looming
- Bloomberg Law, Abortion Pill, Vaccine Attacks Spell Trouble for FDA Approvals
- The New York Times, Abortion Ruling Could Undermine the F.D.A.’s Drug-Approval Authority
- Courthouse News Service, It’s hunting season on FDA-approved drugs after Texas abortion pill ruling
- TIME, What Happens Next in the Fight Over Abortion Pills
- The Washington Post, U.S. to ask Supreme Court to restore full access to abortion pill
- BBC News, US takes Texas abortion pill case to Supreme Court
- Scripps News, Supreme Court extends abortion pill stay until at least Friday
- Bloomberg Law, Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Call Leaves FDA in Line of Fire
- TIME, Mifepristone Is Under Legal Threat. The Other Abortion Pill Could Be Next
- MedPage Today, Legal Experts on What’s Next for Mifepristone
- MedPage Today, Mifepristone Battle Could Signal ‘Pandora’s Box’ of Cases Against FDA Drugs
- Axios, FDA’s new abortion catch-22
- Bloomberg Law, Dueling Abortion Pill Rulings Ripe for Supreme Court Fight
- The Messenger, The Abortion Pill Fight Heads Back to Court – What You Need to Know
- MedPage Today, Abortion Pill Case Returns to Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
- USA Today, Appeals court backs limits on access to abortion pill mifepristone, ruling against Biden’s FDA
- USA Today, How fifth circuit court of appeals mifepristone ruling pokes holes in wider FDA authority
Immediate Responses
- The O’Neill Institute, Gostin, Keith, and O’Neill Experts on Dobbs
- The O’Neill Institute, Regina LaBelle, Shelly Weizmann, Sonia Canzater, Statement on Abortion Access for People with Substance Use Disorder
- Christian Science Monitor, How overturning Roe will reverberate through America
- Law360, Dobbs Casts Shadow On Gay Rights, Birth Control
- The Washington Post, With Roe over, some fear rollback of LGBTQ and other rights
- The Hill, Next big fight looms over abortion pills
- Axios, AG Garland: States can’t ban FDA-approved abortion pills on safety grounds
- WebMD, Roe v. Wade Overturned, Ending 50 Years of Abortion Protections
- The Boston Globe, ‘Wonder if Loving v Virginia is next.’ Legal experts on both sides unpack Roe decision.
- Axios, Abortion pills become central issue after SCOTUS ruling
- MarketWatch, Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade: An estimated 40 million women will lose access to abortion
- Associated Press, Biden calls abortion ruling ‘a sad day’ for country
- Reuters, Reactions from U.S. lawyers to reversal of Roe v. Wade abortion ruling
- STAT, Supreme Court decision suggests the legal right to contraception is also under threat
- Boston Herald, Abortion could be just the tip of the iceberg if Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gets his way, experts say
- The Hill, Pressure grows on Biden to take action on abortion ruling
- Bloomberg Law, Supreme Court’s Roe Ruling Tees Up Fight Over Abortion Pills
- Financial Times, Democrats create ‘sanctuary states’ for abortion as legal battles loom
- Axios, Defining “life-threatening” can be tricky in abortion law exceptions
- The New Republic, Abortion Bans Could Have a Dire Impact on All Reproductive Health Treatments
- American Society for Reproductive Medicine, The Supreme Court Overturns Right to Abortion, Raising Questions and Uncertainties for Art Patients and Providers
- POLITICO, How will FDA play into Biden’s abortion fight?
- POLITICO, HHS launches website in wake of Supreme Court abortion decision
- CBS, “Free” screening? Know your rights to get no-cost care
- Associated Press, Biden team strains to flex muscles in abortion fight
- Reuters, Biden unlikely to meet bold Democrat demands after abortion ruling -sources
- The National Law Journal, Justices’ Decision Overturning ‘Roe’ Sparks an Appellate Court Race
- NBC News, States say abortion bans don’t affect IVF. Providers and lawyers are worried anyway.
- Aspen Public Radio, Aspen Ideas Festival reacts to a post-Roe world
- The Washington Post, Democrats call on Biden to declare abortion national health emergency
- The Hill, White House faces legal hurdles in weighing abortion response
- Health Digest, O’Neill Institute’s Rebecca Reingold On The Long-Term Effects Of Overturning Roe V. Wade – Exclusive Interview
- MedPage Today, Doctors Face Unprecedented Legal Risks After Roe Overturn
- USA Today, Can HIPAA protect you from anti-abortion laws? What to know about medical privacy rights
- Business Insider, Pregnant cancer patients may die because doctors fear treating them could now count as illegal abortion, experts say
- PBS NewsHour, How the end of Roe could affect abortion access in Latin America
- CBC News, In a post-Roe America, abortion medication looms as the next legal battleground
- Vox, The limitations of Joe Biden’s executive order on abortion
- Associated Press, Impassioned Biden signs order on abortion access
- The Washington Post, Two long weeks: Inside Biden’s struggle to respond to abortion ruling
- Forbes, Biden Weighs Public Health Emergency For Abortion Access—Here’s What That Means
- POLITICO, Biden’s abortion response curbed by fears of another Supreme Court showdown
- Axios, Life-saving abortions OK despite state bans, Biden administration says
- The Washington Post, The administration clarifies emergency room laws around abortion
- Axios, Pharmacies can’t deny medication that terminates pregnancy, HHS warns
- Kaiser Health News, Three Things to Know About Insurance Coverage for Abortion
- The Washington Post, Federal officials warn pharmacists about denying abortion medication
- Pew Charitable Trusts, Abortion Medications Set to Become Next Legal Battlefield
- Bloomberg Law, ER Docs in Abortion Bind as Feds Say US Law Tops States
- The New York Times, U.S. Tells Pharmacists Not to Withhold Pills That Can Cause Abortion
- The New York Times, Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Access to Emergency Medical Abortions
- Law360, Can States Legally Ban FDA-Approved Abortion Pills?
- Axios, Pharmacies can’t deny medication that terminates pregnancy, HHS warns
- CNBC, Biden could declare a public health emergency to expand abortion access, but it would face a tremendous legal fight
- Governing, Abortion Medications Set to Become Next Legal Battlefield
- Wall Street Journal, Abortion-Pill Orders Increase, Even in Restrictive States
- The Dallas Morning News, When Massachusetts tried to ban an opioid, a court said no. What about abortion pills?
- Modern Healthcare, Contraceptive coverage gaps under scrutiny post-Roe v. Wade
- Texas Tribune, Lawyers preparing for abortion prosecutions warn about health care, data privacy
- Axios, Dems fear red states banning abortion will zero in on birth control next
- The Washington Post, Major legal fights loom over abortion pills, travel out of state
- Bloomberg, Biden’s Justice Department Sues Idaho Over Six-Week Abortion Ban
- Bloomberg Law, High-Stakes Abortion Lawsuits Force Clash on Emergency Care Law
- Reuters, Exclusive: New Biden abortion rights push addresses both women and men
- Bloomberg Law, Biden Faces Abortion Tangle in Mixed Rulings on Emergency Access
- Pew Trusts, Some Abortion Bans Put Patients, Doctors at Risk in Emergencies
- CNN, Why a woman’s doctor warned her not to get pregnant in Texas
- CNN, Once a ‘quintessential pro-life Texan,’ she had to flee her home state to get an abortion
- Bloomberg Law, Abortion Pill Maker Eyes Changed Judiciary as It Mulls New Suit
- The Washington Post, Justice Dept. says it would defend Veterans Affairs medical workers in abortion cases
- Bloomberg Law, Abortion Rights Tops Biden To-Do List Even Without Congress
- Bloomberg Law, Abortion Pill Opponents Seize New Chance to Target FDA Approval
- MedPage Today, Two Americas After the Fall of Roe
- STAT, Supreme Court decision suggests the legal right to contraception is also under threat
- Colorado Times Reporter, Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade
- JAMA, The End of Roe v Wade and New Legal Frontiers on the Constitutional Right to Abortion
- BMJ, Ending the constitutional right to abortion in the United States
Around the World
- The O’Neill Institute, Natasha Martín Lauletta, Analia Banfi, Abortion Decriminalization on the Docket: A Historic Moment in Brazil (Expert Column in Portugese)
- The O’Neill Institute, Natalia Acevedo Guerrero, Gloria Orrego-Hoyos, Halting Hostilities: The Colombian Constitutional Court’s Stand Against Obstetric Violence in Abortion Services
- Repros Fight Back, A Closer Look at the Court Cases that Expanded Abortion Access in Mexico and Colombia
- Derecho Género y Sexualidad, La objeción de conciencia en el área de la salud en América Latina
- Siglo Editorial, La objeción de conciencia en el área de la salud en América Latina
Events
- Beyond Borders: How the U.S. can learn from the global abortion movement
- The Path Forward for Reproductive Health Rights After Dobbs
- Colloquium: The Next Frontier in Abortion Access
- The Racial Impact of the Dobbs Decision on Women’s Right to Health
- Colloquium: The Long Arc Toward Reproductive Justice
- Colloquium: Paths to Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe World
- Defending Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Amici Curiae in Beatriz and Others vs. El Salvador
- U.S. State Abortion Bans: Medical Exceptions, Human Rights Impacts
- Lanzamiento del Libro “La objeción de conciencia en el área de la salud en América Latina”