US Abortion Laws
The Landmark Supreme Court decision in 1973 that protected the right to abortion.
What is Roe v. Wade?
Late Supreme Court Judge famous for defending reproductive rights.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
This craft store went to the Supreme court to try and deny their employees contraceptives.
What is Hobby Lobby?
This method of birth control, approved by the FDA in 1960, was the first oral contraceptive and remains one of the most widely used forms of birth control today.
Laws that do not allow termination if the fetus has a heartbeat (5 weeks).
What are Heartbeat Laws?
Popular Organization for Women's Rights that first took action in January 2017.
Who is Women's March?
6 out of 9 of these people voted to overturn Roe.
What are Supreme Court Justices?
This type of birth control is a small device inserted into the uterus to prevent pregnancy and can last for several years.
Abortion Bans that went into effect as soon as Roe v. Wade was overturned.
What are Trigger Laws?
Organization responsible for launching the Reproductive Justice framework.
Who is Sister Song?
This U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1965 established the right to privacy in matters of contraception, striking down a state ban on birth control.
What is Griswold v. Connecticut?
This 2010 law required employers to provide birth control coverage as part of preventive health care, although some exemptions have since been allowed.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
The Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe in 2022 allowing abortion to be criminalized.
What is Dobbs v. Jackson?
The only Latina focused organization in Reproductive Justice in the US.
Who is the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice?
Drug currently in the middle of a struggle between a Texas federal judge and the supreme court.
What is Mifepristone?
This Black woman’s health activist helped lead the fight for better reproductive health care and birth control access for Black women.
What is Margaret Sanger
Laws that specifically seek to make it as hard a possible for physicians to provide abortions with unnecessary building requirements.
What are TRAP Laws (Targeted Restrictions on Abortion Providers)?
The largest demographic of women who fight for reproductive justice and created the movement.
Who are Black and Latina women?
A synagogue sued this state over the violation of religious freedom when abortion was restricted.
What is Florida?
This landmark 1977 U.S. Supreme Court case expanded the right to access birth control by ruling that unmarried individuals could obtain contraception.
What is Eisenstadt v. Baird?