In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court relied on medieval English legal texts to argue that “an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment persisted from the earliest days of the common law.”<a href=”https://legalhist.jotwell.com/unbroken-tradition-or-broken-chain-contextualizing-medieval-abortion-law/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-2400″ title=”Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215, at 250 (2022).” target=”_blank”>1…