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In 1993, the NIH published the Revitalization Act that established guidelines for minorities’ and women’s participation in clinical research. Before…
LawLegislation, DrugClinical medicine--ResearchMedical research personnelNational Institutes of HealthForbes 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 therapyArizonaIn the 1989 case Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, the US Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a Missouri law regulating abortion…
LawBirth control clinicsAbortionFamily planning servicesAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesIn 1974, the United States Supreme Court decided in a six-to-three decision in Geduldig v. Aiello (1974), hereafter Geduldig, that pregnancy-related…
Lawpregnancy complicationsEctopic PregnancySex discriminationSex discrimination in insuranceIn the 1983 case City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health the US Supreme Court ruled that certain requirements of the city of Akron’s “…
LawAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinicsContraceptionThis case was the first of its kind to address questions of personhood in the context of in vitro fertilization of a human embryo. It laid a…
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