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Dickey-Wicker Amendment, 1996
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Aug 27, 2010
The Dickey-Wicker Amendment is an amendment attached to the appropriations bills for the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and…
LawbioethicsHuman Development
The Hyde Amendment of 1976
By: Reem Gerais
| Published: Jun 28, 2017
In 1976, the US Congress passed the Hyde Amendment, which banned the use of federal funding to pay for abortions through Medicaid. In 1976, Illinois…
LawMedicaidAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinics
Harris v. McRae (1980)
By: Reem Gerais
| Published: Jun 28, 2017
On 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 States
Roe v. Wade (1973)
By: Sharaden Seward, Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Jul 03, 2018
In the 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court ruled that laws banning abortion violated the US Constitution. The Texas abortion laws,…
LawBirth control clinicsAbortionFamily planning servicesAbortion--Law and legislation--United States
Woman’s Right to Know Act in Texas (2003)
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Jul 15, 2021
In 2003, the Texas state legislature passed the Woman’s Right to Know Act, hereafter the Act, as Chapter 171 of the state’s Health and Safety Code.…
LawAbortionAbortion servicesAmerican Civil Liberties UnionFreedom of Speech
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
Tucson Woman's Clinic v. Eden (2004)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Nov 14, 2016
The case Tucson Woman's Clinic v. Eden (2004) established that some of Arizona's abortion clinic laws violated physicians' and patients' rights to…
LawAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinicsArizona--History
Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001)
By: Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Nov 26, 2013
The US Supreme Court case Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001) established that public hospitals couldn't legally drug test pregnant women without…
LawReproductive RightsPregnancyEmbryosDrug testing
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
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (1994)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: May 25, 2017
On 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 Rights