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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. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Over meals, he quoted the Big Book from memory to his mother. At one Narcotics Anonymous meeting, Patrick ran into two young women he knew from rehab. Those women could be bad news, he confessed to his mother one afternoon in their kitchen. Let’s get out the NA schedule and find a different meeting, Anne offered.

  6. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) - Wikipedia

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    European Union: Allonby v Accrington & Rossendale College (2004) C-256/01 is a European Union law case concerning the right of men and women to equal pay for work of equal value under Article 141 of the Treaty of the European Community. Part-time lecturers at Accrington and Rossendale College did not have their contracts renewed. They were ...

  7. Black people and Mormonism - Wikipedia

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    Under Smith's leadership in Nauvoo, it was illegal for Black men to marry white women; he fined two Black men for violating his prohibition. [84] On at least three occasions (1847, [ 85 ] 1852, [ 31 ] : 44 and 1865), [ 86 ] Brigham Young taught that the punishment for Black–white marriages was death; the killing of a Black–white couple and ...

  8. Detainee Treatment Act - Wikipedia

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    The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (DTA) is an Act of the United States Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 30, 2005. [1] Offered as an amendment to a supplemental defense spending bill, it contains provisions relating to treatment of persons in custody of the Department of Defense, and administration of detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including: [2]

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