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  • Estelle Griswold and Ernest Jahncke flash a victory sign as a result of the court's decision that Connecticut's birth control law was unconstitutional | Credit: (2015) Bettmann, Corbis, Associated Press

    Griswold v. Connecticut

    381 U.S. 479 (1965)

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  • Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) and her lawyer Gloria Allred on the steps of the Supreme Court, 1989 | Photo Credit: Lorie Shaull from St Paul, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

    Roe v. Wade

    410 U.S. 113 (1973)

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  • A banner hanging on the side of the Planned Parenthood of St. Louis after a state judge ruled against an attempt by Gov. Parson's administration to shut down the lone abortion clinic in Missouri | Credit: Robert Cohen, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    Planned Parenthood v. Danforth

    428 U.S. 52 (1976)

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    Hodgson v. Minnesota

    497 U.S. 417 (1990)

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    Planned Parenthood v. Casey

    505 U.S. 883 (1992)

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    Gonzalez v. Carhart

    550 U.S. 124 (2007)

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    Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt

    579 U.S. __ (2016)

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  • Pro-life activists protest outside the Supreme Court building, ahead of arguments in the Mississippi abortion rights case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2021. Credit: Jonathan Ernst | Reuters

    Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

    597 U.S. __ (2022)

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