Deja Roe
A Pennsylvania case that got to the Supreme Court in 1992 could have spelled the end for Roe vs. Wade.
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Anti-abortion demonstrators, including Phyllis Schlafly, foreground, rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 29, 1992. The high court upheld most provisions of a restrictive Pennsylvania abortion law. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander)
Before abortion rights activists grappled with Brett Kavanaugh’s U.S. Supreme Court nomination, they faced Planned Parenthood v. Casey. On this episode of The Why, WESA reporter Lucy Perkins explores the landmark case and walks us through how it shaped abortion restrictions as we know them today.
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