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Will Roe v Wade be overturned, and what would this mean? The US abortion debate explained

  • Written by Prudence Flowers, Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Flinders University
Will Roe v Wade be overturned, and what would this mean? The US abortion debate explainedAndrew Harnik/AP

Last week, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that is the most significant threat to abortion rights in the US in decades.

The case, Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, centres on a 2018 Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks except in “medical emergencies or for severe fetal...

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