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  2. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    Johnson signs Public Law 90-130, lifting grade restrictions and strength limitations on women in the United States military. It amended 10 USC, eliminating the 2% maximum on enlisted women, and allowed female officers to be promoted to colonel or higher.

  3. Dilation and curettage - Wikipedia

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    Dilation (or dilatation) and curettage (D&C) refers to the dilation (widening or opening) of the cervix and surgical removal of sections and/or layers of the lining of the uterus and or contents of the uterus such as an unwanted fetus (early abortion before 13 weeks), remains of a non-viable fetus, retained placenta after birth or abortion as well as any abnormal tissue which may be in the ...

  4. Black people and temple and priesthood policies in the Church ...

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    For men, the priesthood is required for many leadership and church callings and is given to virtually every Latter-day Saint male as early as age 11. For both men and women, a temple endowment is required or encouraged for other callings, such as missionary service. [19] This limited the ability of Black members to serve in various callings.

  5. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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    Further debate ensued after the father of a 38-year-old woman, Eluana Englaro, petitioned the courts for permission to withdraw feeding tubes to allow her to die. Englaro had been in a coma for 17 years, following a car accident. After petitioning the courts for 10 years, authorization was granted and Englaro died in February 2009. [71]

  6. Discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    Overall, it is estimated that completely lifting the MSM blood donation ban could increase the total blood supply in the United States by 2-4%, which could help save millions of lives. [37] Given the blood supply shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic, blood donation restrictions have recently become the subject of further criticism. [38]

  7. Comstock Act of 1873 - Wikipedia

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    The challenges to mifepristone's initial approval were barred, but the challenges to the lifting of REMS restrictions were allowed to go forward. [ 61 ] [ 62 ] In the appellate review, circuit judge James C. Ho dissented from the majority and argued, like judge Kacsmaryk, that mifepristone was barred from mailing by the Comstock Act and that ...

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  9. Intact dilation and extraction - Wikipedia

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    The procedure is used both after miscarriages and for abortions in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy. When used to perform an abortion, an intact D&E can occur after feticide or on a live fetus. In the United States, where federal law describes an intact D&E on a live fetus as a partial-birth abortion, [1] [2] the procedure is uncommon.