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In the 1962 case Planned Parenthood Committee of Phoenix v. Maricopa County, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that Arizona Revised Statute 13-213,…
LawContraceptionBirth control clinicsPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaAbortionMilan Vuitch was an abortion provider in the twentieth century, who performed thousands of abortions in Washington, DC, at a time when abortions were…
Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionAbortion ClinicsPro-choice movementWomen's rightsOn 26 May 1994, US President Bill Clinton signed the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act in to law, which federally criminalized acts of…
LawAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinicsReproductive RightsAnthony Comstock was a US postal inspector and politician who advocated for the suppression of obscenity and vice throughout the late nineteenth…
Obscenity (Law)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinicsContraceptionIn the 2012 case Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services v. David Lakey, a US appeals court ruled as constitutional a Texas law that…
LawAbortionAbortion servicesAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortion--Law and legislationThe North Carolina state legislature passed The Woman’s Right to Know Act in 2011, which places several restrictions on abortion care in the state.…
LawInformed consent (Medical law)Informed consent (Medical law)--United StatesPro-life movementAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesIn 1918, the New York State Court of Appeals in Albany broadened the justification physicians could use to prescribe contraceptives to married…
LawObscenity (Law)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinicsIn the 2002 case Simat Corp v. Arizona Health Care Containment System, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the Arizona Health Care Containment…
LawMedicaidAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesArizona--HistoryBirth control clinicsHoratio Robinson Storer was a surgeon and anti-abortion activist in the 1800s who worked in the field of women’s reproductive health and led the…
PeopleAbortionAbortion servicesPro-life movementPro-life movement--United StatesGonzales v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood) was the 2007 US Supreme Court case in which the Court…
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