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In the 1972 case Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson, Inc., v. Marks, the Arizona Court of Appeals required the Arizona Superior Court to rehear the…
LawPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaBirth control clinicsAbortionAbortion--Law and legislationIn 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 insuranceThe California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act, also called Proposition 71, was a ballot initiative proposed by California voters in 2004 to…
LawStem cells--Research--Religious aspects--ChristianityStem cells--Research--Moral and ethical aspectsEmbryonic stem cells--Research--Law and legislationEmbryo ResearchThe 1986 US Supreme Court decision Bowen v. American Hospital Association rejected the federal government's use of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation…
LawReproductionCongenital DisordersGovernmentOn 29 June 1988, in Bowen v. Kendrick, the US Supreme Court ruled in a five-to-four decision that the 1981 Adolescent Family Life Act, or AFLA, was…
LawFreedom of religionChurch and stateCourts of last resortSex EducationIn 1927, the US Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell set the legal precedent that states may sterilize inmates of public institutions because the court…
LawEugenicsConstitutional courtsSterilization (Birth control)Involuntary SterilizationIn Mills v. Board of Education of District of Columbia (1972), the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held that students with…
LawSpecial EducationPeople with mental disabilitiesPeople with mental disabilities--Services forIntellectual DisabilityThe case of Smith v. Cote (1986) answered two important questions concerning law and childbirth: does the State of New Hampshire recognize a cause of…
LawCongenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and AbnormalitiesCongenital DisordersAbortionIn the legal case In re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation of the early 1980s, US military veterans of the Vietnam War sued the US chemical…
LawProducts liability--Agent OrangeAgent OrangeVeteransAgent Orange--Toxicology