Planned Parenthood v. Casey

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    The Planned Parenthood v. Casey case was major in history and today remains the center of many political debates. This case had an impact on women in the United States and continues to cause a divide to this very day. Many women felt like the government was trying to take their right of privacy and choice. This specific case caused anger and continues to draw many emotions throughout the world. Planned Parenthood v. Casey of 1992 was argued because the ruling of banning abortion in the Roe v. Wade

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    Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833(1992), was case reaffirming the Roe v.Wade decision. It further challenged the constitutionally of several statues in the State of Pennsylvania The Court’s major decision upheld the constitutional right of a women to have an abortion while changing standard for abortion restrictions. The difference between Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey is that the Casey allows the State to regulate abortion rather than as in Roe v. Wade the States could not regulate

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    Planned Parenthood v. Casey occurred after the landmark case, Roe v. Wade, regarding the battle of abortion. Women’s reproductive rights were being challenged by the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982 (Seward par. 1). During 1988 and 1989 the Pennsylvania legislature changed its laws controlling abortion for women by adding more provisions in an attempt to make a woman’s decision for an abortion a more thought out and informed process before committing to the act of abortion. This case challenged

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    Topic 1 Essay Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey Regardless of the opinions surrounding abortion, a majority of people are familiar with the Supreme court cases of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. These two cases have played a tremendous role in regard to the abortion debate. In 1973, the Roe v. Wade case was ruled in favour of Roe and stated the stringent criminalization of abortion in Texas was deemed unconstitutional under the fourteenth amendment. The law violated the right

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    decriminalized in the United States in the milestone Supreme Court case Roe vs. Wade (Ely & Dulmus, 2010). Then, in 1992, the decision in the Planned Parenthood v. Casey case established that abortion restrictions cannot create an “undue burden” on a woman seeking an abortion (Guttmacher Institute, 2017). This decision was then confirmed in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt in 2016 which determined that scientific evidence must be considered when assessing the constitutionality of abortion restrictions

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    • Spousal Notice – This provision did not hold up in court because the spousal notice was deemed unconstitutional in the case of Planned Parenthood v Casey (1992) (Casebriefs, n.d., Pennsylvania General Assembly, 1982). When Roe v Wade (1973) concluded that women were able to have a legal abortion, abortion rates soared (New, 2011). When the provisions from the Pennsylvania Abortion Control act were put into law, abortion rates declined. Between 1990 and 2005, the legal abortions declined

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    ruling in Roe v. Wade in 1973. As of today, over 45 million legal abortions have been performed in the United States. Pro-choice advocates hold these 45 million abortions as being 45 million times women have exercised their right to choose to get pregnant and to choose to control their own bodies. To pro-life, or anti-abortion, advocates these 45 million abortions constitute 45 million murders, a genocide of human life in the United States propagated by the court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade. The debate

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    As women’s rights came to the forefront of American politics, women fought for the right to vote and gained the ability to use contraception and eventually get abortions. In 1921, The American Birth Control League formed ; this later became Planned Parenthood, and gained thirty thousand members in its first three years. This organization founded the first birth control clinic. In 1938, the US Circuit of Appeals decided a case that permitted physicians to give information about contraception to their

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    American values.. The Court ensures the basic rights of its citizens are protected and defines civil liberties. In 1992, Planned Parenthood v. Casey addressed the issues concerning abortion because of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982. This ruling was important to the nation because individual liberty was being denied to women. The values that were in conflict in Casey was the basic liberty for women to control reproduction and the protection of unborn babies. When a woman sought an abortion

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    The U.S. Supreme Court is the highest federal court in the United States of America. This is expressed in Article III, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which states that, “The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court.”(1) They have jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to federal and constitutional law, including the interpretation of such laws. Article III, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution clarifies the Supreme Court’s judicial jurisdiction by stating that

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