Planned Parenthood V. Danforth

In 1976, Missouri presented the Supreme Court with a much-anticipated challenge to Roe V. Wade

The Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Missouri was the appellant in the 1976 Supreme Court case. Courtesy of Shutterstock.

Roe V. Wade was passed in 1973 and some of the states immediately aimed to restrict abortion access.

Many were initially from Northeastern states.

Daniel K. Williams notes this in The Atlantic:

This was not merely a geographic sh…