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In 1844, New Jersey wrote a new Constitution which explicitly denied women and African Americans the right to vote. [ 32 ] On June 18, 1844, an attempt to include women's suffrage was asked by John C. Ten Eyck, who had a petition from Burlington. [ 33 ] The petition was read and not acted on.
LGBT individuals in New Jersey enjoy strong protections from discrimination, and have had the same marriage rights as heterosexual people since October 21, 2013. Since the late 1960s, state-sanctioned discrimination against LGBTQ people has become increasingly less acceptable. A series of court decisions have enlarged the areas of LGBT rights.
This is a timeline of women's suffrage in New Jersey. Women and African Americans had the right to vote in New Jersey until the state constitution was changed in 1807, disenfranchising all but white men. Any early suffrage protest was taken by Lucy Stone in 1857 who refused to pay her property taxes because she could not vote.
June 11, 1985 (1985-06-11) (aged 31) Morris Plains, New Jersey. Karen Ann Quinlan (March 29, 1954 – June 11, 1985) was an American woman who became an important figure in the history of the right to die controversy in the United States. When she was 21, Quinlan became unconscious after she consumed Valium along with alcohol while on a crash ...
The six suspects were indicted on June 5, 2007 [27] and were arraigned in federal court in Camden, New Jersey on June 14 where they pleaded not guilty. [28] The U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler called it "an unusual case" and called for the trial to begin by early October, adding, "If the government is not able to prove this case, they ...
The number of abortion clinics in New Jerssey has been on the decline in recent years, going from 100 in 1982 to 88 in 1992 to 41 in 2014. State funding through Medicaid was available for poor women needing abortions, with 10,277 state funded abortions in 2010. There were 24,454 legal abortions performed in 2014, going up to 48,110 abortions in ...
In the United States, the National Right to Life Committee is the largest right-to-life organization. [3] The right-to-life movement is often associated with Christianity (especially Catholicism) and the Republican Party, but groups such as Secular Pro-Life and Democrats for Life of America hold anti-abortion and anti-euthanasia views for other ...
Singer Pink went on a rampage against pro-life conservatives after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in June of 2022. "Let's be clear: if you believe the government belongs in a woman's ...