  On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned landmark rulings
made in its 1973 verdict in Roe v. Wade. The justices by way of a majority vote
in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, decided that abortion wasn't a
constitutional right and returned the issue of abortion to the elected
representatives. This decision triggered multiple protests and debates across
the US, especially in the context of the midterm elections in November 2022.
Given that many citizens use social media platforms to express their views and
mobilize for collective action, and given that online debate provides tangible
effects on public opinion, political participation, news media coverage, and
the political decision-making, it is crucial to understand online discussions
surrounding this topic. Toward this end, we present the first large-scale
Twitter dataset collected on the abortion rights debate in the United States.
We present a set of 74M tweets systematically collected over the course of one
year from January 1, 2022 to January 6, 2023.
