Abstract
The U.S. Supreme Court is likely poised to overturn Roe v. Wade in a matter of months. Yet, the roots of Roe run both wide and deep, and to uproot Roe would be to uproot the Constitution’s promise of gender equality in a radical way. Just as the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence of reproductive liberty freed people with reproductive capacity from having their destinies and status tied to their biology, an uprooting of Roe and its companion principles will restore the iron rules of gender difference and return women to their common-law status as lacking self-ownership and equal citizenship.
Keywords
Roe v. Wade, reproduction, gender, women, abortion, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey
Publication Date
2022
Document Type
Article
Publication Information
12 Houston Law Review Online 50 (2022)
Repository Citation
Hill, B. Jessie and Kuykendall, Mae, "Uprooting Roe" (2022). Faculty Publications. 2128.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/faculty_publications/2128
