In June 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision that had stated that the right to have an abortion was conferred by the Constitution.
Both the 1973 ruling and the 2022 decision undoubtedly shaped (and will continue to shape) politics and the wider societal debate in the US.
Pease discuss the main avenues of impact of the 1973 ruling on select aspects of social policy within the US (e.g. access to health care/maternal health, welfare, poverty reduction, criminalisation/rehabilitation); select up to three such areas tied to social policy and briefly describe the link between abortion regulations and social policy trends in the US in the last roughly 50 years
