Griswold v. Connecticut
This U.S. document consists of the first 10 amendments, with 5 of them being used to determine the constitutionality of Connecticut’s law preventing the usage of birth control.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Loving v. Virginia overruled a law in Virginia that banned this
what is inter-racial marriages?
The framework established by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade to regulate abortion based on pregnancy stages.
What is the trimester framework?
Planned Parenthood v. Casey upheld this abortion case.
What is Roe v. Wade?
Dobbs gave the states the ability to regulate this?
What is abortion?
This amendment states “the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people” and was mentioned in the concurring opinion of the 1965 Supreme Court Case Griswold v. Connecticut.
What is the 9th Amendment?
The ruling in loving v. Virginia was this
What is unanimous?
In Roe v. Wade, this is the stage of pregnancy during which the Court ruled that a state could not regulate abortion under normal circumstances.
What is the first trimester?
Pennsylvania law required patients seeking abortion to wait this long before getting the procedure.
What is 24 hours long?
The Dobbs case focused on a law from this southern U.S. state.
What is Mississippi?
This center operated in New Haven was involved in providing illegal contraception to a married couple.
What is the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut?
the Lovings were original, sentenced to a year in jail but the judge agreed to suspend their sentence if the Lovings did this
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The constitutional clause the Supreme Court cited as protecting the right to privacy in its decision in Roe v. Wade.
What is the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
Law required patients seeking abortion to receive this, meaning they had to be told of the process and risks of the procedure before agreeing to receive it.
What is “informed consent”?
Dobbs overturned this 1973 case that established the right to abortion.
What is Roe v Wade?
The statute that had its constitutionality involved in this case stated “Any person who uses any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception shall be fined not less than fifty dollars or imprisoned not less than sixty days nor more than one year or be both fined and imprisoned.”
What is the Connecticut birth-control law?
The Lovings moved to this state after the original case was decided:
What is Washington D.C.?
In Roe v. Wade, the Court debated if this term, as used in the Fourteenth Amendment, includes the unborn.
What is "persons"?
The Court imposed this standard on state abortion restrictions, meaning that laws could not create a significant obstacle in a woman’s path to an abortion before the fetus is viable.
What is the “undue burden” standard?
The case concerned the constitutionality of a Mississippi state law prohibiting abortions after this many weeks into pregnancy
What is 15 weeks?
This person was an appellant who was arrested along with Appellant Griswold and was a physician and a professor at the Yale Medical School.
Who is Dr. Buxton?
the Supreme Court used these clauses of the 14th amendment to justify the decision
what is the equal protection clause and due process clause?
In Roe v. Wade, the Court acknowledged that the state has this "important and legitimate interest."
What is protecting potential human life?
While the Court reaffirmed that minors need parental consent to have an abortion, they required this, a way for minors to get out of needing parental consent under special circumstances.
What is a bypass procedure?
The justice who wrote the main opinion in Dobbs.
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