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SEC. 266, Revised Statutes and Codes of Puerto Rico, Section 266-268, 1902.
This 1902 Puerto Rico law criminalized abortion in the territory, newly governed by the United States after the Spanish-American War. Notably, the law…
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Privacy Cases
This collection consists of U.S. Supreme Court cases that established the legal "right to privacy" in the twentieth century.
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Establishing Legal Privacy: Supreme Court Precedent
This exhibit demonstrates the evolution of legal privacy under the Fourteenth Amendment, from Meyer v. Nebraska (1923) through Roe v. Wade (1973) and Dobbs v....
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Bellotti v. Baird, 1979
This case challenged a Massachusetts law requiring parental notification in cases of minors seeking abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down this…
Poe et al. v. Ullman, State's Attorney (1961)
In this case, Poe et al. sued the state of Connecticut for a law (related to the Comstock Act of 1873) that prohibited the advertisement and…
Carey v. Population Services International, (1977).
In this case, the U.S. Court held that states could not place any age-based limits on the advertisement, sale, and distribution of contraceptives.