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Women's Reproductive Rights

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Women’s rights have been a long struggle in America’s legal system, as well as in the religious world, for many decades and women continue to have challenges, concerns, and struggles today. Fighting for what is best for their bodies such as a woman’s right to contraceptives to control whether she will get pregnant or not was not ideal for religious and personal reasons but would find a worthy advocate in a woman who would dedicate her life for women’s reproductive rights. The right for a woman to have an abortion became a legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Courts in a very well-known case. It has always been a double standard in what was right and wrong, moral or immoral, towards women than men. A man was looked at with respect …show more content…

With the introduction of birth control pills in 1960, women had to fight with the law for the decision to reproduce or not to reproduce. Women like Margaret Sanger would fight for women’s right to use the contraceptive, birth control. Women like Norma Leah McCorvey, also known as Jane Roe, in the famous Roe v Wade case in 1973 for the right to have an abortion. These are only two women out of many who paved the way for women to stand up for the right to make reproduction choices for their …show more content…

However, the Comstock Law remained an unchallenged law for many years however this was going to change. In 1916, Sanger was arrested along with her sister, this arrest became a legal battle challenging the Comstock Law. Sanger was arrested due to opening the United States first birth control clinic. When Sanger was arrested, she was later taken to court and with this court appearance, a historical event was beginning to happen. In 1918 women, could use birth control for therapeutic uses, this decision was known as the 1918 Crane decision. Sanger went on to later open another birth control clinic in 1923 which was legally ran by doctors, this clinic was known as the “Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau”. The next decade and decades would be filled with countless court cases in widening and legalizing the reproductive rights of women. Sanger continued to travel throughout the United States and the world lecturing about women’s reproductive rights. The start of Birth Control Federation of American in 1939, now Planned Parenthood Federation of America would give women of America a voice to take control of their reproductive system rights, well at least some

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