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June 7, 1965
Supreme Court, Director of planned parenthood. He advised a couple birth control and was arrested. Constitution provides a right to privacy in marital relations. So Griswold went free. |
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March 22, 1972
Professor, Massachusetts, Ethics, birth control in college class... Showed box (example) and a girl asked for it. He gave it to her and got arrested. Constitution doesn't make a distinction between married people having sex and single people having sex. So he was cleared. |
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January 22, 1973 (before viability)
1. Situation: Jane Roe (Norma McCorvey) - Single woman with an unwanted pregnancy challenged present abortion restrictions as unconstitutional (they interfered with her right to privacy) 7-2 decision in favor of Roe.
2. Main Ruling - Lifted bans on abortion in all 50 states A woman's "right to privacy" extends to her liberty to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
3. What the Supreme Court declared:
-"The Constitution does not define 'person'..."
-"person" has "application only postnatally"
-"The word 'person' as used in teh Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the unborn." |
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January 22, 1973
Doe was mentally challenged.
Main ruling - It expanded the definition of the "health" of the mother to include familial financial and psychological issues etc. as determined by her physician. |
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| Planned Parenthood vs. Casey |
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1992
Main ruling - Discarded 3 trimesters of Roe and focused on the "viability" of the fetus as the determining point where a state's interest in unborn life begins. |
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| Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act |
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2003
WASHINGTON, D.C. --President Bush signed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (S. 3) into law on November 5, 2003, The bill represents the first direct national restriction on any method of abortion since the Supreme Court legalized abortion on demand in 1973. |
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