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Reproductive rights are a sub-set of human rights [1] pertaining to issues of reproduction and reproductive health. [2] These rights may include some or all of the following: the right to legal or safe abortion, the right to birth control, the right to access quality reproductive healthcare, and the right to education and access in order to ...
The Bennett Amendment is a US labor law provision in the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, §703(h) passed to limit sex discrimination claims regarding pay to the rules in the Equal Pay Act of 1963. It says an employer can "differentiate upon the basis of sex" when it compensates employees "if such differentiation is authorized by" the ...
Reproductive rights are legal rights and freedoms relating ... in communist Romania in the period of 1967–1990 during ... of reproductive rights legislation;
Bill Baird (born June 20, 1932) is a reproductive rights pioneer, called by some media the "father" of the birth control and abortion-rights movement. [1] [2] [3] He was jailed eight times in five states in the 1960s for lecturing on abortion and birth control. [4]
In New York, the Equal Protection of Law Amendment (Proposal 1) passed by 61.5% of voters amends the New York Bill of Rights to dictate that no person's rights can be denied on a variety of ...
Thankfully, House Democrats were able to stop the Republicans’ 15-week, 6-week, and 15-day abortion bans — but blocking anti-abortion legislation is only part of the battle for reproductive ...
William Baird was charged with a felony for distributing contraceptive foams after lectures on birth control and population control at Boston University. [2] [3] The prearranged violation of the law occurred on April 6, 1967, when Baird handed a condom and a package of contraceptive foam to a 19-year-old woman. [4]
Abortion rights advocates have long called for a Reproductive Health Act, describing it as essential for ensuring that Michigan residents have meaningful access to abortion. "Because while ...