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The comstock act bans access to information about abortion and birth control.
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21 year old Jane Roe first seeked abortion, then filed a suit against Defendant Henry Wade in Dallas, Texas district court. The Texas court favored Roe but the case got sent to the Supreme Court.
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Distric Court of Dallas Texas filed their judgements and opinion of the case and suggested that the case should go to the Supreme Court.
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The case of Roe vs. Wade was decided to be sent into its first round of arguments by the United States Supreme Court.
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The case was reargued becasue of the late edition of the justices in the court Powell and Rehnquist.
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The Supreme Court voted by majority (7-2) on the Roe vs. Wade case that abortion became legal because the old abortion laws were unconstitutional.
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The first issue of the NRL is published.
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In Planned Parenthood vs. Danforth, the court, by a 6-3 vote, says states cannot give husbands veto power over their pregnant wives' decision to abort their pregnancies. By a 5-4 vote, the court says parents of minor, unwed girls cannot be given an absolute veto over abortions.
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Pro-Life Prospective, NRLC's, daily radio program is first aired.
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By the end of this year there were approximately 26 million legal aboritons and 20 million illegal abortions.