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The 28 pages that link to Roe v. Wade, each with the reason it gives.

• Second-wave feminismRelated: Reproductive autonomy became a central legal and political demand of the movement.

• Civil libertiesBroader topic: Its history shows how courts have grounded and revised privacy-based liberty protections.

• Sexual revolutionRelated: Its ruling made abortion rights a central legal and political consequence of changing sexual norms.

• Reproductive rightsRelated: The decision shaped U.S. abortion law for decades before its reversal.

• Supreme Court of the United StatesBroader topic: It illustrates how constitutional doctrine can be established and later reversed.

• Comstock lawsRelated: Comstock-era restrictions on abortion information formed part of the legal history surrounding abortion access.

• Women’s liberation movementRelated: Abortion access was a major focus of reproductive-rights activism.

• Radical feminismCompared with: Abortion politics show how feminist campaigns addressed bodily autonomy through law and activism.

• Stare decisisBroader topic: The Court’s reliance on and later repudiation of Roe made stare decisis central to a major constitutional dispute.

• Constitutional interpretationBroader topic: Its privacy reasoning became a major dispute over deriving rights from constitutional guarantees.

• Judicial activismBroader topic: The ruling became a prominent target of claims that courts had made policy through constitutional interpretation.

• American Civil Liberties UnionRelated: The ACLU supported the plaintiffs in this landmark abortion-rights case.

• Christian rightRelated: The decision became a major rallying point for Christian right organizing.

• Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health OrganizationCompared with: Dobbs expressly overruled this decision and rejected its constitutional framework.

• Griswold v. ConnecticutRelated: Roe drew on the privacy doctrine associated with Griswold before grounding the right in Fourteenth Amendment liberty.

• Jerry FalwellRelated: The ruling became a major issue in the conservative Christian politics Falwell helped organize.

• Planned Parenthood v. CaseyRelated: Casey reaffirmed Roe’s central protection while replacing its trimester framework.

• National Organization for WomenRelated: NOW supported abortion rights and opposed efforts to overturn the decision.

• Abortion lawBroader topic: It shaped U.S. abortion law for nearly half a century.

• Religious rightBroader topic: The ruling became a major focus of religious-right mobilization and later reversal efforts.

• William RehnquistCompared with: Rehnquist dissented from the decision and challenged its constitutional reasoning.

• William J. Brennan Jr.Related: Brennan joined the majority, while later disputes exposed divisions over the decision’s constitutional basis.

• Abortion debateBroader topic: Its framework shaped U.S. abortion law for nearly five decades.

• Potter StewartRelated: Stewart joined the majority and described the ruling as a correct interpretation of precedent.

• Warren E. BurgerRelated: Burger joined the majority in this defining ruling on privacy and reproductive rights.

• History of abortionBroader topic: It became a defining legal turning point in modern United States abortion history.

• History of birth controlRelated: Abortion politics often intersected with debates over contraceptive access and reproductive autonomy.

• History of reproductionRelated: The case illustrates how courts shaped access to abortion in the United States.