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64 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. Online 1 (2022-2023)

handle is hein.journals/willmaon64 and id is 1 raw text is: William & Mary Law Review Online 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. 1