Editor’s note: This is one in a series examining the Constitution and Federalist Papers in today’s America. The recently completed term of the U.S. Supreme Court was perhaps the most extraordinary one ...

In 2019, a dozen states passed some version of a heartbeat bill—a statute prohibiting abortion after an unborn child's heartbeat can be detected, usually around six weeks into pregnancy. The same year ...

The Supreme Court, in a ruling Friday, ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years. The court’s conservative majority voted to overturn Roe v. Wade from ...

“A blessing in disguise.” Those words from a Democratic political consultant refer to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, which he described as giving “Democrats a renewed optimism about ...