Gender Movement Timeline

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Kaplan University CBredwell SS310-Unit 6- Gender Movements The events for the timeline of the women’s movements as illustrated shows the progression in the women’s movement starting with the founding of the American Birth Control League, “Planned Parenthood” in 1921 as, Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League which evolves into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942.; Women's Rights Movement in the U.S.: Timeline of Events (1921-1979). Retrieved January 20, 2014, Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline2.html#ixzz2qyRvYewy(1) According to Harrison and Dye, “One of the most controversial decisions in the Supreme Court’s history was it’s ruling in Roe v. Wade (1973), which recognized…show more content…
Wade, the Supreme Court establishes a women’s right to safe and legal abortion, overriding the anti-abortion laws of many states. Therefore making it a woman’s right to abortion. This historic case is found in many cases to come as, the case was successfully challenged in 1989 the abortion control act. The next historic case you have is in 1992, Planned Parenthood v. Casey as the Supreme Court reaffirms the validity of a women’s rights to abortion under Roe v. Wade. The case successfully challenges the 1989 case of abortion control act, which sought to reinstate restrictions previously ruled unconstitutional. In 2006, the Supreme Court upholds the ban on the “Partial-birth” abortion procedure. As you will notice is all of these cases, one main event surrounds most of them and, that is the case of Roe v. Wade. This was a very monumental case for women. This case has brought a lot of changes since the 1960’s. It has changed the Supreme Court’s decisions where women’s health is concerned. Since 1921 women have been fighting for their reproductive rights in whether to have an abortion or not and when, still to this day women are fighting for their rights as to how early or how late a woman can have an abortion. The legislature is still fighting for rights of the

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