The fight over the constitutional right to abortion reached its zenith Friday, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in a highly anticipated decision in a legal fight over a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
The decision by the court now returns the issue of abortion to the states and their elected officials, and already, states with so-called trigger laws on the books have begun the processes set out under their laws to ban abortion.
The Supreme Court’s blockbuster ruling follows a decadeslong campaign driven by abortion-rights opponents to convince the justices to reverse its 1973 decision in Roe, which sparked a host of legal battles over the decades as states implemented restrictions that tested the bounds of the constitutional protection for the right to an abortion.
Here is a look at the key court fights, beginning with Roe, that brought us to this moment in the history of abortion rights in the United States:
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