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Geduldig v. Aiello (1974)
By: Nathaniel Ross
| Published: Aug 22, 2024
In 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 insurance
Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)
By: Rachel Gur-Arie
| Published: Aug 27, 2016
In 1942, the United States Supreme Court Case of Skinner v. Oklahoma ruled that states could not legally sterilize those inmates of prisons deemed…
LawCompulsory SterilizationSupreme Court DecisionsEugenicsInvoluntary Sterilization
Thesis: Informed Consent Laws for Abortion: What Do Women Have a "Right to Know?
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Mar 11, 2021
The objective of this project was to determine the importance of informed consent laws to achieving the larger goal of dismantling the right to…
Abortion--Law and legislationInformed consent (Medical law)Patient RightsPatients' Rightsethics
Thesis: The Dynamic Landscape of Abortion Law in the United States
By: Victoria Higginbotham
| Published: Feb 18, 2021
Much change has occurred in abortion laws over the past 50 years, this thesis tracks those changes principally through Supreme Court Cases, such as…
AbortionSupreme Court DecisionsUnited States Supreme Court
The Informed Consent Project
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Jun 01, 2021
In 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 Consent
Planned Parenthood Committee of Phoenix v. Maricopa County (1962)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Jun 23, 2017
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 AmericaAbortion
Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
By: Nathaniel Ross
| Published: Sep 22, 2022
In 1990, the United States Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, or the ADA, which prohibits discrimination against people with…
LawDisability awarenessDisability EvaluationCapacity and disabilityDisability culture
Milan Vuitch (1915–1993)
By: Victoria Higginbotham
| Published: Jun 09, 2018
Milan 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 rights
Nelson v. Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson (1973)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Nov 13, 2016
The 1973 case Nelson v. Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson established the legality of abortion in Arizona. The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that…
LawPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaBirth control clinicsAbortionAbortion--Law and legislation
Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (1922), by Harry H. Laughlin
By: Rachel Gur-Arie
| Published: Aug 12, 2015
Eugenical Sterilization in the United States is a 1922 book in which author Harry H. Laughlin argues for the necessity of compulsory sterilization in…
LiteratureEugenicsInvoluntary SterilizationHeredityEugenics Record Office