Resources

Key Supreme Court cases

• Pew Research: A History of Key Abortion Rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court

• Roe v. Wade (1973) — established the right to terminate a pregnancy in the U.S.

• Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989) — upheld certain restrictions, including banning use of public resources for abortions and banning counseling to have an abortion

• Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992) — created a new standard for assessing laws restricting abortion, ruling that laws could not have the effect or purpose of imposing an “undue burden” on those seeking abortion

• Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) — struck down ban on ”partial birth abortion” (not a medical term)

• Gonzales v. Carhart (2006) — upheld Congress’s ban on “partial birth abortion” (not a medical term), which did not include an exception for the health of the pregnant individual

• Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt (2016) — struck down Texas law whose abortion restrictions imposed an undue burden on those seeking abortion

Professional medical societies

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: Abortion Policy Statement (May 2022)

• ACOG: Understanding ACOG’s Policy on Abortion (May 23, 2022)

• ACOG: Abortion position statement and resources

• ASRM joined ACOG, AMA, and 22 other medical groups on brief opposing the Mississippi abortion restrictions

• Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine: Access to Abortion Services official position statement

• Joint statement opposing abortion restrictions: Leading Physician Groups Oppose Texas Legislation That Threatens Access to Reproductive Patient Care, by AAP, AAFP, ACP, ACOG, AOA, and APA (Sept 2021)

• American Psychological Association: APA RESOLUTION Affirming and Building on APA’s History of Support for Reproductive Rights (Feb 2022)

• American Academy of Pediatrics: The Adolescent’s Right to Confidential Care When Considering Abortion (Feb 2017)

Other resources

• Glossary of abortion policy terms

• ACOG Guide to Language and Abortion

• Map of World Abortion Laws

• Interactive map of U.S. post-Roe abortion policies

Other helpful articles

• Crisis pregnancy centers often provide false, misleading information, Dec 5, 2017

• Restricting access to abortion likely to lead to mental health harms, APA asserts, May 3, 2022

• The Affordable Care Act, contraceptives, abortion and unintended-pregnancy rates, Sept 23, 2013

• Unintended pregnancy and taxpayer spending, April 1, 2013

Pro-abortion rights organizations

• National Abortion Federation

• Planned Parenthood abortion services

• Emily’s List — pro-abortion rights PAC

• Physicians for Reproductive Health — Resources for Journalists Reporting on Abortion

• Center for Reproductive Rights

• NARAL Pro-Choice America

• Catholics for Choice

• National Advocates for Pregnant Women

• National Network of Abortion Funds

• Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

• ACLU list of pro-abortion rights organizations

Anti-abortion organizations

• National Right to Life Committee

• Charlotte Lozier Institute

• Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America — anti-abortion PAC

• Abort73

• Family Research Council

• Americans United for Life

• List of other orgs at Wikipedia