Is the End of Roe v. Wade Near? Leaked SCOTUS Brief Says Yes

Authors

Nicole Huberfeld, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University School of LawFollow
Linda C. McClain, Boston University School of LawFollow

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-3-2022

Publisher

Boston University

Abstract

Protesters on both sides of the abortion debate descended on the US Supreme Court Monday night and into Tuesday after a leaked secret draft of a US Supreme Court opinion indicated that a majority of justices support overturning Roe v. Wade, after almost 50 years of legalized abortion rights in America. If finalized, possibly as soon as this summer, the bombshell could trigger a cultural tsunami across American life, forcing some women to travel to another state for an abortion and putting the divisive issue at the heart of the fall midterm elections.

Recommended Citation

Nicole Huberfeld & Linda C. McClain, Is the End of Roe v. Wade Near? Leaked SCOTUS Brief Says Yes , in BU Today (2022).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/150

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https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/roe-v-wade-supreme-court-abortion-rights/?utm_campaign=bu_today&utm_source=email_20220504_full&utm_medium=1_featured_story&utm_content=politics