In a separate ruling, the court then ruled 5-4 to overturn Roe v. Wade, with Chief Justice John Roberts switching sides. Some conservative lawmakers are flirting with banning people from obtaining ...

American abortion law owes much of its present form to the case of Roe v Wade in 1973. In Roe v Wade the Supreme Court held that a pregnant woman has a constitutional right, under the Fourteenth ...

Shelley Lynn Thornton, now 51, is the daughter of Norma McCorvey, who was Jane Roe in the landmark Supreme Court case that secured the legal right to abortion For the first time, the child of Jane ...