Norma McGorvey was twenty-one, pregnant with her third child, and unmarried when the case was filed. ... She had suffered physical and emotional abuse as a child, spent some time in reform school, and was raped as a teen-ager. ... Norma McGorvey's mother raised her first child, Melissa, while the father raised her second child. ... In her complaint, Jane Roe claimed that the statute was unconstitutionally vague and violated her right of privacy as guaranteed by the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. ... In Jane Roe's original...

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The act's five provisions are the following: "[T]he informed consent rule mandate physicians to inform women about the dangers to their health during the abortion, the spousal notice rule required women to inform their husbands prior to the procedure, the parental notification and consent rule obliges minors to get prior consent from a parent or guardian to have an abortion, the fourth provision imposed a 24-hour grace period before receiving an abortion, and the fifth provision was the obligation of certain reporting protocols on establishments performing abortion services]("Planned Pare...

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Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts...

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