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From a total of 3,260 government-funded birth control clinics, another 80 minors were found to have been coercively sterilized. [5] One case involved Deborah Blackmon, an African American woman from North Carolina who was involuntarily sterilized at 14 years old via a total abdominal hysterectomy in January 1972 due to the court judging her to ...
1994 - In re Baby Boy Doe, 632 N.E.2d 326 (Ill. App. Ct. 1994) was a court case holding that courts may not balance whatever rights a fetus may have against the rights of a competent woman, whose choice to refuse medical treatment as invasive as a Cesarean section must be honored even if the choice may be harmful to the fetus.
In 2000, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that companies that provided insurance for prescription drugs to their employees but excluded birth control were violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [2] President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on 23 March 2010. As of 1 August 2011, contraception ...
The state’s abortion ban took effect immediately once the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade.
FILE - Abortion-rights supporters chant their objections at the Kentucky Capitol, April 13, 2022, in Frankfort, Ky. Abortion-rights groups filed a court motion on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, seeking ...
As the birth control societies spread across Europe, so did birth control clinics. The first birth control clinic in the world was established in the Netherlands in 1882, run by the Netherlands' first female physician, Aletta Jacobs. [20] The first birth control clinic in England was established in 1921 by Marie Stopes, in London. [21]
Abortion is illegal in Kentucky, except to save a pregnant woman’s life or to prevent disabling injury. [1] [2] [3] There were laws in Kentucky about abortion by 1900, including ones with therapeutic exceptions. In 1998, the state passed legislation that required clinics to have an abortion clinic license if they wanted to operate.
Teens from various areas of Kentucky gathered in front of the Kentucky Capitol Annex building Wednesday morning to protest against SB150 which would ban gender-affirming health care for ...