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NARAL was created to help lobby congress and push forward reproductive rights. -
On January twenty second 1973 SCOTUS voted on Row V. Wade which granted abortions protections under the right to privacy. -
After Ken Edeline was imprisoned for performing an abortion federal lobbying efforts were doubled down on. -
In 1977 supported by congressman Henery J. Hyde the Hyde amendment was passed which made it illegal for federal funds to fund abortions. -
NARAL launches the “Abortion Rights, Silent No More” campaign, using the slogan “We are Your Mothers, Your Daughters, Your Sisters, Your Friends, and Abortion is a Choice We Have Made.” -
In 1987 Reagan attempted to place an antiabortion justice in the SCOTUS but due to lobbying those efforts were thwarted. -
70,000+ people marched on DC on the SCOTUS ruling that rolled back reproductive rights. -
SCOTUS strikes down a Nebraska ban on second trimester abortions, invalidating similar laws in many other states. -
In the first few days of his presidency, former President Barack Obama signs several executive orders, including a repeal of the Global Gag Rule. -
Obama signs the affordable care act into law which states that insurance company's must co-pay birth control. -
In response to the ACA’s pro-reproductive freedom policies, state legislatures begin attacking reproductive freedom. -
United States Department of Justice directs the FBI to investigate attacks on on abortion clinics. -
Federal lobbying efforts starting from a grass roots campaign in Georgia successfully keep Neil Gorsuch off of the SCOTUS. -
NARAL launches Reality of Roe, a major campaign to educate Americans in all 50 states about the current threat to the legal right to abortion. -
SCOTUS overturned Row V. Wade by upholding Mississippi's 15 week abortion ban.