Article Figures/Media Metrics 5 References Related Articles Article Since 1973, various U.S. state legislatures have engaged in an increasingly intense dance with the courts, testing the limits of abortion regulation under Supreme Court decisions that protected a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy before the point of fetal viability. The music changed dramatically on June 24, 2022, with the release of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which the Court overruled both Roe v.