History Day - Civil Rights & Human Rights

These are a few examples

• Court Cases:
  • Griswold v Connecticut November 1, 1961, Estelle Griswold and Dr. C. Lee Buxton opened a birth control clinic in New Haven. 1965 - case reached U.S. Supreme Court. June 7th, 1965 decision said Connecticut law violated constitutional right to marital privacy.
  • Roe v Wade ; Doe v Bolton ; Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) ; Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (2016) Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014)    
  • https://landmarkcases.c-span.org/Case/21/Griswold-v.-Connecticut
  • https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/historyday/2023
  • https://www.ctexplored.org/connecticut-women-fight-for-reproductive-rights/
  • https://www.ctexplored.org/state-historian-birth-control-and-zones-of-privacy/

Connecticut

Griswold

Federal

• Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113(1973)
• Doe v. Bolton, 410 US 179
• 3.Abele v Markle, 369 FSupp 807 (1973) declared unconstitutional
• H.L. v. Matheson, 49 LW 4255 requires physician to notify parents of minor seeking abortion
• Webster v. Repro Health Services, 109 SCt 3040 (1989)
• In Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 112B S. Ct. 2791 (1992), the Supreme Court reaffirmed the Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 pertaining to the life and health of the mother.
• Thornburgh v Amer. Coll. Of Obst. & Gyn, 46 US SCt Bull No. 46, B2836 (June 1986) Penn. Abortion Control Act informed consent reporting & viability & post liability performance provisions violate the right to privacy.
• Ohio v. Akron, 110 SCt 2972 (1990)
• Akron Center for Repro Health v Salby
• Hodgson v. Minnesota, 110 SCt 2926 (1990)
• Maher v. Roe, 432 US 464 (1977) CT Welfare Dept. regs ruled not unconstitutional in restricting abortions to "medically necessary."
• Rosie J. Doe v. Maher, 40 Conn Supp 394, 515 A2d 134 (1986) a Connecticut DIM regulation which restricted abortions to those necessary because the life of the mother would be endangered was enjoined the DIM was ordered to provide medically necessary abortions to be defined as those necessary to ameliorate a condition that is deleterious to a woman's physical and/or psychological health.
• Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479(1965). Established the constitutional right to privacy that was later used to protect a woman's right to abortion.
• *Roe v Norton 522 F2d 928 (1975) upheld Gov. Grasso's order not to use Medicaid funds

Bray v. Alexandria Clinic, brought to SCT 11/91 under 42 US 1985 (MG 11/6/91)