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    The “rape” incident failed, as there was no police documentation made by McCorvey beforehand. The following year of 1970, Roe V. Wade had came to see an appeal because of the U.S. Supreme court. In the case of Griswold V. Connecticut, the Supreme court ruled out the right of privacy to couples (married, specifically). And it restricted that of trying to prohibit married couples from using any forms of birth control. This has had a major impact on Roe V. Wade because it is all

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    It all started as an idea, that’s how anything and everything starts. Debbie Sterling the founder of GoldieBlox or I could say the creator of the company started her movement in the year 2012 in San Francisco. Debbie’s reason for coming up with this idea is because the lack of women in the engineering field and lack of encouragement girls receive to go into the math and science fields, it bothered her. GoldieBlox is a toy company for young girls age’s five to ten that inspires them to be engineers

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    for equality. On March 29, 1965 the Supreme Court was presented with the infamous case, Griswold v. Connecticut. When Estelle Griswold, the Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut and a colleague, the Medical Director for the League, unlawfully gave medical advice to married couples considering birth control. Such counseling was illegal in the state of Connecticut and the two were criminalized for potentially preventing contraception. On June 7, 1965 the Supreme

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    Initially published in 1845 by Dr. Benjamin Spock, The Common Sense Guide to Baby and Child Care revolutionized parenting, and thus, the upbringing of an entire generation and those following. As society changed, new editions of the original handbook emerged to fit the lifestyle of the current population. Dr. Spock wrote seven editions of The Common Sense Guide to Baby and Child Care alongside a prestigious pediatrician, Steven Parker, before his death in 1998. I read the ninth addition of the manual

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    Griswold v Connecticut     The director of Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, Estelle Griswold, and Dr. C. Lee Buxton were accused and found guilty of providing illicit contraception under a Connecticut law. They were both fined $100 each for this crime. Griswold and Buxton appealed to the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, stating that the law was unconstitutional because it violated the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. The Connecticut court endorsed the conviction, so they appealed

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    The Right To Privacy

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    Court cases shown in “Right to Privacy” cases were about personal decisions that invaded an individual’s privacy. Cases such as Kelley v Johnson, Roe v Wade and Griswold v Connecticut presented how the government was being controlling of an individual’s personal decision. For example, in the Griswold v Connecticut, a Connecticut law criminalized the encouragement or use of birth control. The 1879 law said if "any person who uses any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purposes of preventing

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    This case challenged the rights of marital privacy within the home. In 1961, Griswold and her partner, Dr. Buxton, opened a birth control clinic in New Haven, Connecticut. A law enacted in 1879 made it illegal to use anything to prevent contraception in the state. That’s right, nothing could be used to prevent pregnancy. Consequently due to their actions, Griswold and Buxton were arrested, tried, found guilty, and

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    In Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth Control and the Constitutional Right of Privacy, Johnson outlines the struggle to overturn an 1897 Connecticut anticontraception law while arguing for the right of privacy. In the case of Griswold v. Connecticut, attorney Thomas Emerson argued that the “anticontraception statutes denied Griswold and Buxton their right to liberty and property without due process of law, as guaranteed by the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Furthermore, in constructing the

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    There are more than three billion people living on Earth; however, not everyone adores each other. On the other hand, if people met Bill and Bud, two main characters from The Tender Bar, they would find them charming. J.R. Moehringer wrote an emotional autobiography about himself and his devastating life, in The Tender Bar, J.R. walked into a bookstore in an unhabituated mall, and met Bill and Bud, who changes his life forever. Many youth, teens, and adults would find Bill and Bud likeable, because

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    Abortion is murder no matter what a person believes ! There are many reasons abortion should be illegal . Think about The health threat to the mother after going through with the procedure as well as the lifelong health risks that remain , also the emotional damage that occurs . Personally I’m against abortion and you should be as well . Many may not know that abortion can be a threat to a women’s health because all they see or choose to see is the reason why she is going through with the procedure

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