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Voices

Inside the 'Dobbs' decision

Published July 1, 2022

Health law and policy expert Joanne Rosen discusses the Supreme Court decision that overturned 'Roe' and 'Casey' and ushered in a new era of reproductive rights in the United States

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Voices

After Roe falls

Published June 21, 2022

Johns Hopkins experts discuss a future without the safeguards outlined in 'Roe v. Wade'

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Commentary

'A full-throated reversal' of abortion rights

Published May 13, 2022

Health law and policy scholar Joanne Rosen discusses the legal arguments laid out in the pending 'Dobbs' decision that may prove the undoing of 'Roe'

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Reproductive health

How did 'settled law' get unsettled?

Published May 4, 2022

The conservative movement carefully orchestrated the end of abortion rights over decades, using the women's suffrage playbook, says political scientist Dawn Teele

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Health+policy

The public health case for abortion rights

Published Nov 30, 2021

Joanne Rosen from the Johns Hopkins Center for Law and the Public's Health discusses Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which heads to the Supreme Court Dec. 1