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California: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Wisconsin: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Oregon: Unmarried women are given the right to own land. [14] Tennessee: Tennessee becomes the first state in the United States to explicitly outlaw wife beating. [15] [16] 1852
TERA advocated for women's right to vote, but also supported other rights, such as a women's right to serve on juries. [14] TERA had local chapters formed in Beaumont , Belton , Circleville, Dallas, Denison , Fort Worth , Granger , San Antonio , and Taylor in 1893 and 1894. [ 14 ]
Women in the Northern states were the principal advocates of enhancing women's property rights. Connecticut 's law of 1809 allowing a married woman to write a will was a forerunner, though its impact on property and contracts was so slight that it is not counted as the first statute to address married women's property rights.
Mifepristone access restricted in Texas. Combining mifepristone and misoprostol is more effective than misoprostol alone for successful medication management of early pregnancy loss, research ...
The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday scrutinized efforts to clarify exceptions to the state's abortion ban, which a growing number of women say forced them to continue pregnancies despite serious ...
A women's suffrage bill for a Texas state constitutional amendment is approved in a committee of the Texas House of Representatives, but defeated by the House as a whole. [3] January 18 Frank H. Burmeister introduces the women's suffrage resolution in the Texas Legislature. [25]
Texas aborts healthcare and women's rights. A young woman is pregnant with a baby that will not survive and may cause her to be unable to have children in the future. Her doctor decides she should ...
Switzerland was one of the last European countries to establish gender equality in marriage: married women's rights were severely restricted until 1988, when legal reforms providing gender equality in marriage, abolishing the legal authority of the husband, came into force (these reforms had been approved in 1985 by voters in a referendum, who ...