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A Supreme Court ruling is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half of US states.

CHICAGO — In summer 1966, 17-year-old Leta Dally and her mother were driven by a stranger to an undisclosed location on Chicago’s South Side, where the recent high school graduate had an illegal abortion.

DALLAS — The way Norma McCorvey’s oldest daughter sees it, her late mother — best known as “Jane Roe” in the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling — spent her life striving to help women, but got caught in a battle between movements wanting to use her.

A pair of recent lawsuits claims Bay Area software firm Zendesk systematically pays women less than men and discriminates and harasses women on the basis of pregnancy and gender.

The landmark ruling enshrined constitutional protections for abortion care

AUSTIN, Texas — Linda Coffee was in her mid-20s and barely out of law school when she and former classmate Sarah Weddington stunned the legal establishment—and much of America—by successfully arguing Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in 1973.

Dr. Thomas Dobbs has never gotten involved in political fights over reproductive health, but his name has become shorthand for a legal case that could end abortion rights in the United States

From Vengalattore v. Cornell Univ., decided yesterday by the Second Circuit (Judge Amalya Kearse, joined by Judges José Cabranes and Rosemary Pooler): Vengalattore is a male of Indian descent. He became a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Physics … in 2009…. One [of his laboratory assistants], a graduate student—called "Jane Roe"…

The landmark ruling enshrined constitutional protections for abortion care