post-Roe

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ Roe.

Adjective

post-Roe or post-Roe (not comparable)

1. After the decision of Roe v. Wade (1973) in the United States, generally protecting the right to have an abortion.
   • 1988, Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse, edited by Susan Elizabeth Davis, Women Under Attack: Victories, Backlash, and the Fight for Reproductive Freedom, Boston, Mass.: South End Press, →ISBN, page 55:

     Within 9 months of the Roe decision, 188 bills to restrict abortion were introduced in 41 states. As described in Chapter 5, post-Roe statutes included requirements of spousal or parental consent, hospitalization for second trimester abortions, mandatory waiting periods, and funding restrictions.

   • 1992, Glen A. Halva-Neubauer, Legislative Agenda Setting in the States: The Case of Abortion Policy, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota, page 3:

     In the post-Roe period, however, state authority was largely taken away by the federal courts (strict scrutiny analysis prevailed), yet abortion was a lively issue in many state legislatures.

   • 1994, William A[nthony] Donohue, Twilight of Liberty: Legacy of the ACLU, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2017, →ISBN:

     On July 3, 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld three key provisions of the Missouri statute and, though it didn’t overturn Roe, set back the “pro-choice” movement more than any decision in the post-Roe period.

   • 2005, Christopher J. Peters, Neal Devins, “Alexander Bickel and the New Judicial Minimalism”, in Kenneth D. Ward, Cecilia Rodriguez Castillo, editors, The Judiciary and American Democracy: Alexander Bickel, the Countermajoritarian Difficulty, and Contemporary Constitutional Theory, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, pages 62–63:

     Conversely, a substantively minimalist jurisprudence, allowing the outright prohibition of abortions, is equally unworkable; in the years before Roe, when nontherapeutic abortions were prohibited in nearly every state, abortions were almost as common as they are in the post-Roe period (albeit less safe).

2. After the overturning of Roe v. Wade (2022).

   Synonym: post-Dobbs

   • 2019, Robin Marty, Handbook for a Post-Roe America‎^[1], Seven Stories Press, →ISBN:

     It is probably safe to assume that the effort will begin again once the reality of a post-Roe America sets in.

   • 2022 June 6, David Leonhardt, “A Post-Roe America”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-06:

     Our goal is to preview what a post-Roe landscape might look like.

   • 2022 December 16, Melissa Jeltsen, “We Are Not Prepared for the Coming Surge of Babies”, in The Atlantic‎^[3]:

     The post-Roe rise in births in the U.S. will be concentrated in some of the worst states for infant and maternal health. Plans to improve these outcomes are staggeringly thin.

   • 2023 April 26, Emine Saner, quoting Justin Lehmiller, “The rise of voluntary celibacy: ‘Most of the sex I’ve had, I wish I hadn’t bothered’”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[4], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-26:

     Furthermore, he says, “in this #MeToo and post-Roe era [with the rollback of reproductive rights]^[sic] we find ourselves in, the perceived risks associated with sex are higher, particularly for women. […]