Stop Abortion Bans Rally in St. Paul, Minnesota
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In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Roe v. Wade that there was a fundamental right to abortion under the U.S. Constitution, limiting states' ability to restrict access. Beginning in 1975, some state legislatures passed trigger ban laws, that is, laws that would go into effect to ban or significantly curtail abortion in the state if, and as soon as, Roe was overturned. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, and several state trigger bans went into effect. Reproductive justice advocates have since filed several lawsuits, primarily in state courts, challenging the trigger ban laws. Those legal challenges to the abortion trigger ban laws are the focus of this collection.
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