Roe Vs Wade
Recent Highlights
All Stories for Roe Vs Wade
AOC uses Twitter jibe to spread information on abortion resources after US SC overturns Roe vs Wade
Trendingdesk •AOC had shared information on her Instagram stories about safe self-managing medication-induced abortions according to the World Health Organization’s guidelines
India's marital rape verdict and US draft opinion striking down Roe v Wade are linked by a 17th-Century jurist
Fp Explainers •Sir Matthew Hale codified in a treatise the concept of 'coverture', which states that upon marriage a woman surrenders her agency to her husband including consent for sex. He also described abortion as a ‘great crime’
Medication abortions are increasing in US: What they are and where women get them
•The protocol approved for use in the United States includes two medications. The first one, mifepristone, blocks a hormone called progesterone that is necessary for a pregnancy to continue. The second, misoprostol, brings on uterine contractions
Reversing Roe movie review: An indictment of the state and religion's encroachment upon the womb
Anupam Kant Verma •Reversing Roe's great achievement is the clarity with which it depicts the gradual, near villainous manner in which the personal matter of abortion was politicised, the womb turned into a political and religious battleground, and activists’ and ordinary women’s efforts to push back against a great injustice being perpetrated in the name of life.