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Case name: PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, ET AL v. ROBERT P. CASEY, ET AL. Court: Supreme Court of the United States Year of Decision: 1992 Facts: This was a United States Supreme Court case in which the statutory provisions of Pennsylvania regarding abortion was challenged. It required that a married woman seeking an abortion must inform and get consent from her spouse, a 24 hour waiting period, and required consent from at least one parent of a minor seeking an abortion.…

Question Presented: Should the Supreme Court uphold the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, banning partial-birth abortion procedure in all circumstances? Is it, or is it not ever medically necessary, and furthermore against ethical moralities? What court’s decision should be upheld? Is the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 constitutional? Short Answer: Yes, the Supreme Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 as constitutional. This banned partial-birth abortion…

of Hermia that "she is keen and shrewd... and though she be but little, she is fierce” (Shakespeare, 2004, 3.2.340-342). Though such would be an astounding instance of literary foreshadow, Shakespeare may very well have written these lines with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in mind. As a bright and confident individual unafraid to take on challenges, Ginsburg struggled throughout life to make her way in a society that worked to dissuade ambitious women. Ultimately, Ginsburg…

Roe v. Wade was a milestone court case in women’s right to privacy. This case focuses on the issue of abortion and is one of the most well-known court cases from the 20th century. This all started when a single women, Norma McCorvey, got pregnant and decided that she did not want to keep her baby. She made many attempts of her own to get rid of the child such as claiming rape to get a legal abortion to trying to get the abortion done illegally. Having no success in either of those two options…

system and the failure of swift due process. I understand that it doesn’t state anywhere that you have the right to a speedy or fast death however, once you are convicted of a capital crime and you…

In a collaborative research study called “Do Political Preferences Change? A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Supreme Court Justices,” the researchers (which I will refer to as Epstein et al.) looked into 16 different Supreme Court justices that served for 10 or more terms and started and ended their service in between 1937-1993. Based on two different models they charted out the Justice’s voting habits liberally or conservatively to see how they voted and if their votes changed over time or if there…

Roe v Wade (1973) In January of 1973, another historic precedent was set regarding the abortion rights of women in the United States. At the time, Texas abortion laws insisted that the act of aborting a pregnancy was prohibited, lest a doctor could reasonably determine that the mother’s life was at stake if the pregnancy was continued, or if the conception was a result of rape or incestuous relations. Norma L. McCorvey, who went by the pseudonym of Jane Doe, sought to challenge this law as her…

Roe v. Wade was the Supreme Court decision that granted the right to a legal abortion in the United States. Prior to 1973, procuring or attempting an abortion was a criminal offense under many state statutes, except when medically advised for the purpose of saving the life of the mother. This prohibited women who wanted to obtain an abortion from legally getting one. Roe v. Wade was filed in Texas in March 1970 on behalf of the plaintiff Jane Roe, a single and pregnant woman without the means or…

The U.S. Supreme Court decision reached in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) unleashed a process of public school desegregation that attempted to end the “separate but equal” doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). However, large-scale desegregation did not occur before the mid-1960s, and some resistant school systems did not start implementing credible desegregation plans until the early-1970s. In North Carolina, Robeson County School System and Greensboro City School System…

Sane Enough to Die Imagine a state of paranoia so great that it starts to seem as if one’s own thoughts are not their own, or auditory and visual hallucinations that continuously speak of the inferiority of the masses, creating an intense sense of superiority in oneself. Such experiences are just a few of the possible symptoms of schizophrenia, a fairly well recognized psychological disorder present in today’s society. Psychological disorders are an incredibly real issue in the modern world…