Today marks the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court opinion that recognized the fundamental right to abortion, and with it comes the yearly celebrations and critiques. For decades, critics of Roe have claimed that the case was a travesty of justice and wrongly decided—that the opinion prompted such fierce backlash that abortion remains, […]
Author: Jill E. Adams
Jill E. Adams, J.D., is founding executive director of the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law