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COURT CASES AND LEGAL PRECEDENTS
CRYSTALLIZING EVENTS
MEDICINE AND TECHNOLOGY
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This person was responsible for coining the term “Natural Selection.”
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
This international legal precedent guaranteed rights of personal autonomy and informed consent.
What is the Nuremberg Code?
100
This case concerned the legal regulation and protective boundaries around infants with certain types of mental and physical defects.
What is Baby Jane Doe?
100
This medical procedure is used during pregnancy in part to determine if the fetus has any genetic abnormalities.
What is “amniocentesis”?
100
Charles Davenport conducted experimental research on human evolution here.
What is Cold Spring Harbor?
200
This person coined the term “eugenics.”
Who is Francis Galton?
200
According to this Supreme Court case decision, a fetus is not considered a person under the Constitution.
What is Roe v. Wade?
200
This woman attempted to acquire an abortion after taking thalidomide, a drug that caused severe birth defects.
Who is Sherri Finkbine?
200
The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) popularized this term in order to frame their political message.
What is “partial-birth abortion”?
200
This group has been associated with murdering abortion providers.
What is the Army of God?
300
This person founded Planned Parenthood.
Who is Margaret Sanger?
300
Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote this sentence in the decision for Buck v. Bell (perhaps the most famous in the decision), which caused many to speculate that he was a supporter of the eugenics movement.
What is “three generations of imbecils are enough”?
300
This institute was found to have infected children with Hepatitis to study the disease’s transmission
What is the Willowbrook Institute?
300
In the 1960s, the Medical Advisory Committee and Admissions Advisory Committee were set up in Seattle to screen candidates for this medical procedure.
What is a “kidney dialysis machine”?
300
This was the first national organization to express the belief that people should be able to plan their families without government intervention.
What is the American Birth Control Movement?
400
This person was the first Superintendent of the Lynchburg Colony.
Who is Albert Priddy?
400
In this 1965 case, Supreme Court justices looked for Constitutional “penumbras” in the Bill of Rights to resolve the question of whether the government could legally prohibit birth control.
What is Griswold v. Connecticut?
400
Researchers in this experiment were studying the effects of syphilis, but once a cure was developed, they did not provide it to the study participants.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment?
400
Since the 1980s, these two controversial medical procedures has spurred a number of custody cases about the rights of biological parents.
What are IFV and surrogacy?
400
Maintaining a superior (white) race motivated this social movement.
What is the Eugenics Movement?
500
Scott Roeder was convicted of murdering this person.
Who is George Tiller?
500
500: The Supreme Court’s 1999 decision on Stenberg v. Carhart, which outlined concern for pregnant mothers’ health and ambiguous terminology in a Nebraska statute, set legal precedent for the overturning of this policy.
What is the Partial-Birth Abortion Act of 2003?
500
These are the four main crystallizing moments that led to the creation of the bioethics movement.
What are (1) The Pentagon tested radiation on humans; (2) Researchers used children from the Willowbrook institute to study the transmission of hepatitis; (3) The Tuskegee Syphilis experiment; and (4) live fetus research?
500
This U.S. state was responsible for having sterilized the greatest number of people during the Eugenics movement?
What is “California”?
500
This organization set up criteria for those who were eligible for transplants.
What is the Seattle Artificial Kidney Center?