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  2. List of executive actions by Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia

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    Amendment of Paragraph 7, Subdivision III, Schedule A, Civil Service Rules (Public Health Service Employees) September 26, 1936 1709 1629 7460 Designating the Chairman of the United States Maritime Commission (Henry A. Wiley) September 26, 1936 1725 1630 7461 Placing Certain Lands Under the Control of the Secretary of the Interior (Alabama)

  3. Common Rule - Wikipedia

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    The Common Rule is a 1991 rule of ethics (revised in 2018) [2] regarding biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects in the United States.The regulations governing Institutional Review Boards for oversight of human research followed the 1975 revision of the Declaration of Helsinki, and are encapsulated in the 1991 revision to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ...

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

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    Several abortion clinics (most known was the Alexandria Health Clinic) sued to prevent Jayne Bray and other anti-abortion protesters from voicing their freedom of speech in front of the clinics in Washington D.C. [299] Alexandria Women's Health Clinic reported that the protesters violated 42 U.S.C. 1985(3), which prohibits protests to deprive ...

  5. Franklin D. Roosevelt and civil rights - Wikipedia

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt's relationship with Civil Rights was a complicated one. While he was popular among African Americans, Catholics and Jews, he has in retrospect received heavy criticism for the ethnic cleansing of Mexican Americans in the 1930s known as the Mexican Repatriation and his internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War.

  6. Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, first and second terms

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    The New Deal thereby placed more women in public life—a record that stood until the 1960s. [152] In 1941 Mrs. Roosevelt became co-head of the Office of Civil Defense, the major civil defense agency. She tried to involve women at the local level, but she feuded with her counterpart, Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, and had little impact on policy ...

  7. New Deal - Wikipedia

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    The First New Deal (1933–1934) dealt with the pressing banking crisis through the Emergency Banking Act and the 1933 Banking Act.The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) provided US$500 million (equivalent to $11.8 billion in 2023) for relief operations by states and cities, and the short-lived CWA gave locals money to operate make-work projects from 1933 to 1934. [2]

  8. Public health law - Wikipedia

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    Public health law examines the authority of the government at various jurisdictional levels to improve public health, the health of the general population within societal limits and norms. [1] Public health law focuses on the duties of the government to achieve these goals, limits on that power, and the population perspective.

  9. Women's reproductive health in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Contraception is a major issue of women’s reproductive health. 86% of sexually active women practice some form of contraception and 30% of these women use a hormonal form of contraception. [10] Women in the U.S. have more freedoms in deciding their use of contraceptives among other global nations, comparatively.