Planned Parenthood

Abortion went through many other Supreme Court cases after Roe v. Wade. In 1992, it was brought up again in the court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In this case, many Pennsylvania state regulations regarding abortion were challenged. The Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act was taken into consideration and it was decided that it violated certain rights of women. This case was important…

Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand, a professor of pediatrics, anesthesiology and neurobiology considers fetal pain likely takes place between 18 to 24 months (Bellcuk, 2013). In 2007, The Planned Parenthood vs. Casey case, the standard was reduced to 22 weeks and that the state can defend its interest on the probability of life as long it does not cause unburden or death to the mother. Currently 41 states have outlawed post-viability abortions…

Background Schimel v. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, will examine a Wisconsin law that requires all doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges in a hospital within 30 miles of where the abortions are performed. Wis. Stat. § 253.095(2) (2013). Doctors who fail to comply can be fined up to $10,000 and are exposed to liability from the women who had the abortion and her family. Wis. Stat. § 253.095(3-4). The plaintiffs filled a §1983 suit against state officials in Wisconsin arguing…

prior to the last three months of pregnancy legal and required “the state to justify any interference with the abortion decision by showing that it had a ‘compelling interest’ in doing so” (“Roe v. Wade - Then and Now”). In the case Casey v. Planned Parenthood (1992) the new standard for abortion rights came to include that a state cannot place “undue burden” on someone seeking an abortion (“Roe v. Wade – Then and Now”). It was a decision made in favor of women’s right to privacy and her right…

Elvis Rodriguez Fall 2015 Civil Liberties Final Freedom is a condition in which people have the “opportunity” to speak act and try to pursue happiness without any unnecessary restrictions. Freedom is important because it leads to expressions of original thought, increased creativity and a high quality of life. The idea of freedom is complex and it’s not so easy to understand. In the United States “essential” freedom are “guaranteed” by the Bill of Rights, a part of the constitution.…

with cultural beliefs. Of course the distribution of wealth, taxes, and government spending are major issues, but without basic equality for all U.S. citizens, solutions to these issues can’t work. Women don’t have enough say in their rights. Planned Parenthood offers women the option of having safe abortions for reasonable costs, yet politicians debate whether they should give money to this organization to keep it running. Women also don’t get the same wages as men do, even if they have the…

Is the notion of legal precedent molded by local interests? Barbara Yngvesson, in her essay entitled Inventing Law in Local Settings: Rethinking Popular Legal Culture, asserts that the foundation of justice and communal identity rests with the American court system. Though all members of the judiciary body remain “unbiased,” this idea suggests an overpowering force behind local petitions which are, thus, used as vehicles to deliver justice and identity. Linda Greenhouse, author of Becoming…

The information contained in Becoming Justice Blackmun demonstrates the forcible, yet changeable, as a matter of law, nature of precedent with regards to the penetration of the lives of the United States citizenry. Most prominently cited, the Roe v. Wade decision, altered the age-old belief of the criminalization of abortion. Blackmun wrote in his notes, “‘Here we go in the abortion field” (Greenhouse, 72), prior to the hearings of three cases involving abortion; thus, Blackmun, as well as the…

the U.S.). In 1973, the Supreme Court legalized abortion as a pro-choice stance. Many court cases tried to over turn Roe v. Wade, the court case that said abortion should be legal, but never had it overturned; however, in 1992, the court case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey had made restrictions on abortion. This includes a 24 hour waiting period, one parent’s permission if a minor, and a husband must be notified of intent to have the procedure done but was overturned in the above…

more than half the abortions (57%). Women ages 20-24 are responsible for 23.8% and women ages 25-29 are responsible for 28.7%. Black women accounted for almost half of those abortions, at 41.5%. This is completely unacceptable. Of course, this was Planned Parenthood’s main mission in its early days, with its founder Margaret Sanger, an unashamed racist as well as a supporter of eugenics, made clear several times in her essays, letters and speeches. Margaret Sanger saw an unborn baby as a clump…