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Womens Reproductive Rights - Webercise

Access the following site, http://www.ushistory.org/us/57b.asp , and read the article to answer the 3 following
questions.
Recall the double standard women were forced to
adhere to before the passage of the 19th amendment;
then identify the double standard women faced
before the court case ruling on womens reproductive
rights.

Explain how the fight for womens reproductive rights

is more than just a battle for or against abortion.

Analyze how the GRISWOLD V. CONNECTICUT

supreme court case created a precedent for
subsequent womens reproductive rights cases in the
supreme court.

Use the following site: http://playchoicetexas.com/index.php , to

play the game. Play the game as all 5 women, keep in mind
throughout the dialogue you will be asked to make a choice as one
of these five women. While playing consider how the choices, you
made, and subsequent outcomes deal with diminished
reproductive rights or infringe on womens reproductive rights.

Discuss one of the womans journeys you

experienced in the game.
***Make sure to explain in detail the choices you
made for one of your characters, and the resulting
effects of those choices.

Evaluate some of the difficulties the characters faced

when considering alternative options to having
and/or keeping their pregnancies.
***Were some of the choices not your first choice.
Were choices skewed because of the difficulty or
strain it would have imposed on the character (i.e.
financial or legal hardships).

Support or criticize the judicial bypass process

required of minors to obtain abortion medical care.
***Consider how this made the process easier or
harder, and how this could affect someone positively
or negatively in the matter of deciding whether to
obtain an abortion or not.

Explore the following sites content by clicking on the various tabs to learn more information regarding womens
reproductive rights in America. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~mbpatton/reproductive_rights/index.html
Click on the Margaret Sanger section, then
read through her brief biography.
Identify the pivotal moments in Sangers life
that led her to advocating for womens
reproductive rights?

Click on the Religion section, then read

through the four different religious policies,
practices, and beliefs around contraceptives
and abortion.
Compare and contrast the four different
religious policies and beliefs of Catholicism,
Protestant Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
surrounding birth control/contraceptives and
abortion.
Click on the Roe V. Wade tab, then read about
the monumental and controversial supreme
court ruling that is still subject to debate
TODAY.
Summarize the Supreme Court Justices
rationale behind the ruling.
***Provide a through explanation as to why
the Justices made their ruling, and how
previous amendments and clauses of the
constitution upheld their decision.

Watch the following video: http://content.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,79545976001_1983742,00.html . Then

answer the following question.
Classify the relevance or irrelevance the pill had
on the Sexual Revolution of the 60s.

Discuss how the use of oral contraceptives (the

pill) gave women more freedoms in their young
adult life.

Review the following timeline: https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/blog/timeline-100-years-birth-control ; then

identify the key events of the following years. Make sure to not only identify the key event, but explain why it is a key
event in the fight for womens rights.

1916
1965
1998
2006
2012-2014