Although states have the power to regulate medical care, they cannot exercise that power by prohibiting speech on medical topics that the state disagrees with.
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The FACE Act was signed by Bill Clinton in 1994 to guarantee access to abortion and reproductive health care protected by the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.
Silent prayer may seem benign, even peaceful, but when anti-abortion protestors pray silently outside abortion clinics, it can be experienced as intimidation and coercion by service users.
A historian of gender and women’s rights explains how women’s protests focused on their rights evolved from the 1960s through the present.
An analysis of anti-abortion rights groups in the US shows that while some specifically turn to Christianity to explain their positions, others are looking at broader, human rights arguments.
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Susan E. and William P. Distinguished Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Professor of History Emerita, Washington University in St. Louis
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