The Roberts Court and the Attack on Reproductive Freedom in America

One of the first major decisions of the Supreme Court under John Roberts’s tenure as Chief Justice came in 2007 in Gonzales v. Carhart, a landmark case that upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. But Roberts had been on the (undisclosed) record as critical of Roe v. Wade since at least 1981. That year, when he was working…Read More