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A year without Roe

A series of stories from across the Guardian marking a year since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade

25 June 2023

  • protester with a sign saying protect the right to choose

    GOP-run states are eyeing abortion beyond their borders. Blue states are fighting back

    As Democratic states pass ‘shield laws’ to protect patients and providers, could legal clashes between states be on the horizon?

24 June 2023

  • Demonstrators hold signs as they rally outside the Supreme Court building during the Women's March in Washington, Saturday, June 24, 2023. Abortion rights and anti-abortion activists held rallies Saturday in Washington and across the country to call attention to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling on June 24, 2022, which upended the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

    ‘A year of trauma and terror’: Democrats issue calls to action as US marks Roe reversal

    ‘States have imposed extreme and dangerous abortion bans,’ says President Biden while Vice-President Harris gives fiery speech
  • Abortion rights activists rally in Washington<br>Abortion rights demonstrators rally to mark the first anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs v Women's Health Organization case, overturning the landmark Roe v Wade abortion decision, in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

    ‘How dare they?’ Kamala Harris says in fiery speech on Roe’s overturn as protests mark anniversary – as it happened

    Democrats pledge to protect reproductive rights as US marks one year since supreme court overturned federal right to abortion

    • The fight over US abortion rights in the year without Roe – photo essay

    • Health data privacy post-Roe: can our information be used against us?

    • Protests planned across US to mark one year since loss of abortion rights

23 June 2023

  • The Women’s March in Los Angeles in April. The Dobbs decision has had a seismic impact on reproductive rights.

    A year after Roe’s fall, fears of US abortion bans become reality

  • ‘Every person I report on is as complicated as me.’

    What it’s like to cover abortion while pregnant: ‘People saw me as a container for a child’

22 June 2023

  • Anya Cook poses for a portrait at Windmill Park in Coconut Creek, Florida on Friday, June 16, 2023. After Anya had 17 miscarriages in two years, she held a pregnancy for the longest time yet: sixteen weeks. The same week she finally felt able to let out a sigh of relief and to tell people about her pregnancy, she found out it was going to be unviable. Instead of helping her, doctors in Florida sent her home and told her she would have to deliver the fetus herself, because to intervene could be against Florida’s abortion laws.

    ‘They forced me to carry my baby to the end’: women of color on being denied abortion

  • A grid of headshots of state legislators and governors who voted to ban abortion in the US

    These 1,572 US politicians have helped ban abortion since Roe fell. They’re mostly men

21 June 2023

  • Woman's hands holding birth control pills

    The people turning to birth control after the fall of Roe: ‘I feel a little safer’

    More people are feeling backed into a corner after the supreme court struck down the nationwide right to abortion last year

20 June 2023

  • Natalie Morales

    Actor Natalie Morales on the end of Roe: ‘I don’t want to sow divisiveness any more’

    Comedy queen and director of Plan B talks about contraception, last year’s Dobbs decision and the importance of connection

19 June 2023

  • Opton 2

    Days of desperation: the diary of a woman forced to flee Texas for an abortion

    Lauren Miller’s fetus had fatal brain abnormalities. Her pregnancy threatened her life, and that of her twin boy. Now, she is one of 15 women suing the state

18 June 2023

  • doctor performing an ultrasound on a patient

    ‘We weren’t meant to be criminals’: the gynecologists training out of state post-Roe

    As abortion bans sweep the nation, OB-GYN residents rotate to abortion-supportive states to meet their program requirements
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