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Women’s Right to Know Act (2019) by Americans United for Life

By: Richa Venkatraman | Published: Jun 23, 2021

In 2019, Americans United for Life, hereafter AUL, published a model legislation, called the Women’s Right to Know Act, in their annual publication…

LiteratureAbortionAbortion, InducedInduced AbortionMaternal-Fetal Medicine

Carol Downer (1933– )

By: Rainey Horwitz | Published: Apr 09, 2019

Carol Downer was a reproductive health and abortion rights activist in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the US and other countries. During…

AbortionWomen's rights--United States--History--20th centuryCannulaWomen's health services--United StatesAmerican Public Health Association

“Women’s Right to Know” Informed Consent Informational Materials

By: Richa Venkatraman | Published: Jun 10, 2021

As of 2021, twenty-eight US states have informed consent laws for abortion, which is a medical procedure to terminate pregnancy, often called Women’s…

AbortionAbortion, InducedInduced AbortionInformed ConsentGynecology

Bernard Nathanson (1926-2011)

By: Mark Zhang | Published: Apr 22, 2013

Bernard Nathanson was an obstetrician and gynecologist in New York City, New York, who argued for, and later against, women's rights to abortion.…

PeopleObstetriciansGynecologistsAbortionUltrasonics in obstetrics

Planned Parenthood v. Danforth (1976)

By: Carolina J. Abboud | Published: Nov 15, 2017

On 1 July 1976, the US Supreme Court decided in the case Planned Parenthood v. Danforth that provisions of a Missouri law regulating abortion care…

LawAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinicsContraception

City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983)

By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya, Lawton L. Jackson | Published: Nov 08, 2017

In the 1983 case City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health the US Supreme Court ruled that certain requirements of the city of Akron’s “…

LawAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinicsContraception

Milan Vuitch (1915–1993)

By: Victoria Higginbotham | Published: Jun 09, 2018

Milan Vuitch was an abortion provider in the twentieth century, who performed thousands of abortions in Washington, DC, at a time when abortions were…

Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionAbortion ClinicsPro-choice movementWomen's rights
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Arizona Revised Statutes 13-3603 (1864)

By: Manar Hajja | Published: Jun 19, 2025

Arizona Revised Statutes 13-3603 (1864), or ARS 13-3603, was a territorial law enacted in 1864 before Arizona was granted statehood that banned…

Abortion, InducedAbortion, LegalReproductive RightsAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesArizona--Politics and government

Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)

By: Carolina J. Abboud | Published: Feb 26, 2017

In the 1989 case Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, the US Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a Missouri law regulating abortion…

LawBirth control clinicsAbortionFamily planning servicesAbortion--Law and legislation--United States