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Misericordia et Misera (Mercy with Misery) was a letter written by Pope Francis and published in Rome, Italy, on 20 November 2016. Through the letter…
LiteratureAbortionBirth ControlFetal deathAbortifacientsThe Silent Scream is an anti-abortion film released in 1984 by American Portrait Films, then based in Brunswick, Ohio. The film was created and…
LiteratureAbortionAbortion in literatureFetusEmbryosOn 30 June 1980, in a five to four decision, the US Supreme Court ruled in the Case Harris v. McRae that the Hyde Amendment of 1976 did not violate…
LawContraceptionUnited States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies AppropriationsMedicaidAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesSelf-proclaimed female physician Ann Trow was a women’s reproductive health specialist as well as an abortion provider in New York City, New York…
AbortionAbortion servicesPro-choice movementTrials (Abortion)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesIn the 1980s, researchers at the pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf in Paris, France, helped develop a biological compound called mifepristone.…
Induced AbortionAbortionAbortifacientsReproductive RightsMifepristoneIn 2013, Cynthia Daniels and a team of researchers at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, founded the Informed Consent Project. Daniels…
OrganizationAbortionAbortion, InducedInduced AbortionInformed ConsentIn the 1973 case State v. New Times, INC, the Arizona Court of Appeals in Phoenix, Arizona, ruled that Arizona Revised Statutes 13-211, 13-212, and…
LawContraceptionBirth control clinicsPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaAbortionGeorge Richard Tiller, a doctor who performed abortions in Wichita, Kansas, was shot to death on 31 May 2009 by Scott Roeder. As the director of one…
AbortionLate-term abortionAbortion servicesFetusAbortion, LegalIn 1901, the Arizona Territorial Legislature codified territorial law that illegalized advertising, causing, or performing abortions anywhere in…
LawObscenity (Law)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionArizonaForbes v. Napolitano (2000) was a US court case that established that Arizona researchers could use fetal tissues from induced abortions for basic…
LawPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaFetal tissuesCellular therapyArizona