Essential Reading: America After Roe v. Wade

In a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a strict Mississippi abortion law. It also overturned Roe v. Wade, the 50-year-old case that was the basis for legal abortion across the United States.

The full text of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and ending the constitutional right to an abortion.

Here are some key excerpts from the justice’s opinions.

Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan decried the abolition of Roe v. Wade in blistering language.

Roe vs. Wade went from ‘settled’ law to overruled in a few years, thanks to four unexpected developments.

Not all trigger bans immediately kick in, but abortion will soon be illegal in more than a dozen states.

Currently, penalties for violating abortion laws vary widely by state, and many state laws specifically say a patient getting an abortion cannot be prosecuted. But that may soon change.

As clinics close, the distances women will need to travel for an abortion will increase drastically. See the range of scenarios.

Americans overwhelmingly support abortion rights, but vary on the specifics.

The new season of Slate’s Slow Burn podcast investigates how the pro-life movement found its footing in the years before Roe v. Wade.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, the issue has become one of the defining fault lines in U.S.

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion has only further fractured an already deep division between the states, where contentious legal battles are almost certain to erupt as legislatures and attorneys general grapple with the new landscape of abortion

The court's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade follows a recent increase in decisions rejecting Supreme Court precedents. Here are the most significant ones from the past century.