Roe v. Wade / Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization : SCOTUS Decision and the Federal Response: Other

Resources on this page may be non-governmental, or not a direct response to the Dobbs decision, but provide important context.

The Dobbs Decision

Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows (5/2/22 via Politico, with copy of leaked draft opinion)

• Supreme Court press release regarding the leaked draft (5/3/22)

The Dobbs v. Jackson Decision, Annotated (6/24/22, via New York Times)

The inside story of how John Roberts failed to save abortion rights (7/26/22, via CNN)

SCOTUS releases investigative report on leaked draft of Dobbs opinion (1/19/23)

• 1/20/23 follow-up statement of SCOTUS Marshal

Federal judge says constitutional right to abortion may still exist, despite Dobbs (2/6/23, via Politico)

• court order

Tracking Abortion Laws Post-Roe

Is Abortion Still Accessible in My State Now That Roe v. Wade Was Overturned? (6/24/22, via Planned Parenthood)

Tracking the States Where Abortion Is Now Banned (7/2/22, via New York Times)

Background Information on Abortion

CDCs Abortion Surveillance System FAQs

• Includes link to the latest (2019) Abortion Surveillance report; previous reports (1979-2018) are available from the CDC's Data & Statistics site

Timeline of Important Reproductive Freedom Cases Decided by the Supreme Court (via ACLU)

Miscellaneous Related Information

The Biden-McConnell Deal to Make an Anti-Abortion Advocate a Federal Judge Is Still On (7/1/22, via Slate)

• Subsequent reporting from July 6 (via Reuters, with copies of related emails)
• Biden Drops Plan to Name Anti-Abortion Lawyer Backed by McConnell as Judge (7/15/22, via New York Times)
• Biden Offers Abortion-Rights Lawyer as Judge After Alleged Deal Controversy (7/29/22, via Newsweek)

Data privacy concerns make the post-Roe era uncharted territory (via NPR)

DHS Intelligence bulletin from May 13 obtained via #FOIA that warned about "domestic violent extremists" & threats against various targets related to SCOTUS overturning Roe v Wade (7/7/22, via @JasonLeopold on Twitter)

Alito mocks foreign critics of Supreme Court abortion ruling, with link to video (7/28/22, via Politico)

Planned Parenthood mobile clinic will take abortion to red-state borders (10/3/22, via NPR)

Twenty-two Republican AGs support lawsuit to end access to mifepristone abortion drug (2/10/23, via Chris Geidner)

What happened inside the federal hearing on abortion pills (3/17/23, via NPR; includes transcript)