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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. National Women's Law Center - Wikipedia

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    The center has been developing for over 40 years and continues to make contributions today. Marcia Greenberger was hired in 1972 to start the program and Nancy Duff Campbell joined her in 1978. [2] In 1981, the two decided to turn the program into the separate National Women's Law Center.

  5. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    AA’s meetings, with their folding chairs and donated coffee, were intended as a judgment-free space for addicts to talk about their problems. Treatment facilities were designed for discipline. Something else has been lost with the institutionalization of the 12 steps over the years: Bill Wilson’s openness to medical intervention.

  6. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the ...

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    Women over 45 (lowered to 40 in 1974, raised back to 45 in 1985) [258] [259] – Women who had already delivered and reared four children (raised to five in 1985) [258] [259] – Women whose life would be threatened by carrying to term due to medical complications [258] [259] – Women whose fetuses were malformed [260]

  7. Woman Paralyzed by Falling Tree Can Move Again Thanks to ...

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    Jessie Owen was traveling with her family twelve years ago when, while going through a mountain pass, a tree fell on their car. “In that moment, my parents passed away, my siblings were severely ...

  8. List of people banned from entering the United States

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    Banned after the apartheid regime of South Africa designated the ANC as a terrorist organization in 1960, requiring Mandela to receive a waiver from the U.S. Secretary of State to visit the United States. 2008, after President George W. Bush signed an act to formally lift it. [114] Diego Maradona Argentina: Former soccer player and coach

  9. District of Columbia v. Heller - Wikipedia

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    District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.It ruled that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms—unconnected with service in a militia—for traditionally lawful purposes such as self-defense within the home, and that the District of Columbia's handgun ban and ...