The Latest Breaking News from Jane Roe

A federal judge suggested that plaintiffs can sue as John Does only to the extent that identifying them would also identify nonparties who want to remain anonymous (such as the students who accused the plaintiffs of sexual misconduct).

From Judge Reed O'Connor's order today in Doe v. Texas Christian Univ. (N.D. Tex.): [Non-party Jane] Roe's earlier reports of sexual assault by Plaintiff John Doe prompted Defendant TCU's institution of Title IX disciplinary proceedings against him and, in turn, gave rise to this suit…. [Doe subpoenaed Roe] to appear…

Coffee was just 30 when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with her argument that the constitutional right to privacy extended to abortion: “I thought, OK, well this is done now. I was thinking the [abortion] question was settled for as long as the country lasted.”

Abortion access in prisons was already ‘abysmal.’ The end of Roe v Wade made things even worse, Josh Marcus reports

The landmark abortion case had its origins in campus activism at UT Austin, including journalists at a feminist newspaper called the Rag.

DALLAS -- Nearly 50 years have passed since Jane Roe sued then-Dallas County Distrct Attorney Henry Wade for the right to have an abortion in Texas, forever making Dallas ground zero in the country’s ongoing fight about reproductive rights.

The now-dead landmark ruling enshrined constitutional protections for abortion care

In 1970, attorney Nancy Stearns allowed women to share their stories in the fight for abortion access in the courts for the first time. She speaks to Rachel Sharp about women losing their voices again in the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade and whether abortion rights would have…

WASHINGTON – The Texas Supreme Court ordered late Friday that the state’s century-old abortion ban, struck down in Roe v. Wade in 1973, can be enforced immediately.