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64 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. Online 1 (2022)

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VOLUME 64                                                   No. 1, 2022
THE DOBBS EFFECT: ABORTION RIGHTS IN THE
REAR-VIEW MIRROR AND THE
CIVIL RIGHTS CRISIS THAT LIES AHEAD
TERRI DAY* & DANIELLE WEATHERBY**
ABSTRACT
On June 24, 2022, seven weeks after the first-ever leak of a draft
opinion, the United States Supreme Court circulated its decision in
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, defying stare
decisis, overruling fifty years of precedent, and shattering the hopes
of millions of Americans, who wished the leaked opinion was a
fiction that would never come to be.
As the leaked draft forewarned, Roe v. Wade is no longer the law
of the land. No longer is a woman's right to terminate a
pregnancy-to exercise bodily autonomy and be free to control the
* Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professor of Law, Barry University School of
Law; L.L.M. 1995, Yale University; J.D. 1991, University of Florida; M.S.S.A. 1976, Case
Western Reserve University; B.A. 1974, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Many thanks to
Dean Diaz and my Barry law family for all the support they have shown me over the years.
** Professor of Law, University of Arkansas School of Law; J.D. 2005, University of
Florida; B.A. 2002, Franklin and Marshall College. A special thank you to Dean Cynthia
Nance, Associate Dean Jill Lens, my University of Arkansas colleagues, and my wonderful
research assistant, Gunnar Bartlett, for his excellent research support.
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