Both of these young lawyers were very active in the women's movement and thought women should have the right to control their own reproductive processes. ... The ACLU believes that personal privacy and reproductive rights are among our most important constitutional liberties and they were the first national organization to argue for abortion rights before the Supreme Court. The ACLU has been the principal defender of those rights since the Roe v. ... Pro-life activists have targeted these personal privacy and reproductive rights repeatedly, but have been unable to get successfully overt...

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Reproductive Health Services is handed down by Supreme Court Allowing states to place increased restrictions on women's access to abortion. ... In 1994, President Clinton signed Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) making it a federal crime to interfere with the provision of reproductive health care. ... From the start, either the Supreme Court has steered the debate, by shutting out lawmakers or, now, by their involvement in defining abortion rights. ... A new controversy about abortion, is to focus on equal rights for women, must also address the rights of men. Reframing the...

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