SOC 022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Comstock Laws, Reproductive Justice, Strict Scrutiny
15 Nov 2016
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Reproductive justice: people have the right to. Adequate information, resources, services, and personal safety while pregnant. Birth control"s 3 overlapping histories: abortion, contraception, sterilization. Criminalizing abortion: legal, espe(cid:272)ially (cid:271)efo(cid:396)e (cid:862)(cid:395)ui(cid:272)ke(cid:374)i(cid:374)g(cid:863, campaign to criminalize in 1800s, comstock law (1873, by 1910, abortion illegal in every state* Kentucky ruled through court case while the others were through legislation. Protection of sanctity of motherhood and chastity of white women. Legalizing abortion: 1930s-1960s: hospital abortion boards, factors influencing legalization. Failure of criminalization: roe v wade 1973. Roe v wade: associated right to abortion with privacy right named in griswold v ct (1965, based legalization on 4 constitutional principles. Women have constitutional right to reproductive privacy and proposed go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:396)egulatio(cid:374) (cid:373)ust (cid:271)e su(cid:271)je(cid:272)t to (cid:862)st(cid:396)i(cid:272)t s(cid:272)(cid:396)uti(cid:374)y(cid:863) Government must remain neutral regarding a woma(cid:374)"s de(cid:272)isio(cid:374) a(cid:271)out whether or not to have an abortion. In pe(cid:396)iod (cid:271)efo(cid:396)e (cid:862)(cid:448)ia(cid:271)ility(cid:863), go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:373)ay (cid:396)est(cid:396)i(cid:272)t a(cid:271)o(cid:396)tio(cid:374) o(cid:374)ly i(cid:374) the i(cid:374)te(cid:396)est i(cid:374) p(cid:396)ote(cid:272)ti(cid:374)g (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s health.
