人工流产事件的时间表.docx

1、人工流产事件的时间表人工流产Timeline:1959The American Law Institute (ALI) proposes a model penal code for state abortion laws. The code advocates legalizing abortion for reasons including the mental or physical health of the mother, pregnancy due to rape and incest, and fetal deformity.1967Apr. 25: Colorado Gov.

2、John A. Love signs the first liberalized ALI-model abortion law in the United States, allowing abortion in cases of permanent mental or physical disability of either the child or mother or in cases of rape or incest. Similar laws are passed in California, Oregon, and North Carolina.1970Apr. 11: New

3、York allows abortion on demand up to the 24th week of pregnancy, as Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller signs a bill repealing the states 1830 law that banned abortion after quickening except to save a womans life. Similar laws are passed in Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington state.1971Apr. 21: The U.S. Supreme

4、Court rules on its first case involving abortion in United States v. Vuitch, upholding a District of Columbia law permitting abortion only to preserve a womans life or health. However, the Court makes it clear that by health it means psychological and physical well-being, effectively allowing aborti

5、on for any reason.1972By years end a total of 13 states have an ALI-type law. Four states allow abortion on demand. Mississippi allows abortion for rape and incest 1966 while Alabama allows abortion for the mothers physical health 1954. However, 31 states allow abortion only to save the mothers life

6、.New York repeals its 1970 abortion law but Gov. Rockefeller vetoes the repeal.1973Jan. 22: The U.S. Supreme Court issues its ruling in Roe v. Wade, finding that a right of privacy it had earlier discovered was broad enough to encompass a right to abortion and adopting a trimester scheme of pregnanc

7、y. In the first trimester, a state could enact virtually no regulation. In the second trimester, the state could enact some regulation, but only for the purpose of protecting maternal health. In the third trimester, after viability, a state could ostensibly proscribe abortion, provided it made excep

8、tions to preserve the life and health of the woman seeking abortion. Issued on the same day, Doe v. Bolton defines health to mean all factors that affect the woman, including physican, emotional, psychological, familial, and the womans age.May 14: The National Right to Life Committee is incorporated

9、.June: The first NRLC Convention is held in Detroit, gathering activists from pro-life groups around the nation to form what has become the largest pro-life organization in the United States.Nov. 1: The first issue of NRL News is published. 1974Jan. 22: The first March for Life is held in Washington

10、, D.C., on the west steps of the Capitol. Thousands of pro-lifers have attended the March for Life every year on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.Nov. 6: Pro-life Sen. Bob Dole (R-Ks.) is elected in the first major statewide political battle after the Roe v. Wade decision. Dole, with the

11、help of newly formed groups of pro-life activists, defeats Congressman William Roy, a doctor who performed abortions.1975Feb. 15: Boston abortionist Kenneth C. Edelin is found guilty of manslaughter for the death of an unborn child. (See also Dec. 17, 1976.)Mar. 10: The first Human Life Amendment is

12、 introduced in the U.S. Senate by Sens. James L. Buckley (Cons.-NY) and Jesse Helms (R-NC).1976Apr. 28: The U.S. Senate conducts a test vote on the Human Life Amendment. The amendment draws 40 votes. A two-thirds vote (67 senators) is needed to approve a constitutional amendment.June 28: The first H

13、yde Amendment, sponsored by Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Il.), is approved by the U.S. House. The amendment to the Department of Health and Human Services appropriations bill prohibits Medicaid funding of abortions with narrow exceptions.July 1: In Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth, the U.S.

14、Supreme Court strikes down a Missouri law that banned the use of saline amniocentesis as an abortion method and that obliged a married woman seeking an abortion to obtain her husbands consent. The Court also holds that states could require a minor to obtain consent of one parent before obtaining an

15、abortion, but the law must contain a judicial bypass option for minors who do not wish to obtain parental consent.Dec. 17: The manslaughter conviction of abortionist Edelin is overturned by the Massachusetts Superior Judicial Court, which rules that legal abortions are manslaughter only if the baby

16、is definitely alive outside the mothers body.1977Feb.: Mission Possible is launched - - a project of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, an NRLC state affiliate, to provide organizational development assistance and matching grant seed money for developing state right to life groups, primarily in

17、the Southeastern United States.June 20: In Maher v. Roe, Beal v. Doe, and Poelker v. Doe, the U.S. Supreme Court holds that federal and state governments are under no obligation to fund abortion in public assistance programs, even if childbirth expenses are paid for indigent women and even if the ab

18、ortion is deemed to be medically necessary.July: NRLC Pro-Life Legal Action Project is initiated to provide and fund the legal defense for pro-life legislation and to seek affirmative legal action to obtain the judicial implementation of pro-life goals.1979June: A major pro-life book is released. Dr

19、. Bernard Nathanson, the National Abortion Rights Action League cofounder who renounced the pro-abortion movement, publishes Aborting America, which exposes the lies used by abortion supporters in their quest to overturn legislation protecting unborn children.Sept. 15-16: National Right to Life PAC

20、is organized.1980Jan. 10: NRLC files a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the Hyde Amendment.June 30: In Harris v. McRae, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the Hyde Amendment, ruling that there is no constitutional right for women to receive abortions at public expense.N

21、ov. 4: Republican pro-life candidates Ronald Reagan and George Bush defeat pro-abortion President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale. In addition, a remarkable 11 Senate seats switched from the pro-abortion column to the pro-life column. It is the first year NRL PAC is involved in electi

22、ons.1981Mar. 23: In H.L. v. Matheson, the U.S. Supreme Court approves a Utah parental notification law. The law requires an abortionist to notify the parents of a minor girl who is still living at home as her parents dependent when an abortion is scheduled.July 9: A U.S. Senate subcommittee approves

23、 a bill sponsored by Sen. Helms designed to challenge Roe v. Wade. (See also Sept. 15, 1982.)Dec. 16: A U.S. Senate subcommittee approves a constitutional amendment proposed by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) declaring that the Constitution secures no right to abortion. (See also Sept. 15, 1982.)1982Mar.

24、10: The Senate Judiciary Committee approves the Hatch Amendment, which would give the states and Congress joint authority to regulate abortion.Mar. 27-28: NRLC Board of Directors adopts a resolution supporting the Hatch Amendment, the Human Life Bill, and the NRLC Unity Amendment.April.: French rese

25、archer Dr. Etienne-Emile Beaulieu of Roussel Uclaf announces that a test was conducted using the abortifacient RU 486 to abort 11 women.Sept. 15: The Helms bill to challenge Roe v. Wade is blocked by a pro-abortion filibuster in the U.S. Senate.1983June 15: In Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive

26、Health, the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down state requirements that abortions performed after the first trimester be done in a hospital, womens right to know laws, and waiting periods after information is provided to the woman seeking abortion before she can consent to an abortion. However, the Cour

27、t rules that states may insist that only licensed physicians perform abortions.June 28: The U.S. Senate rejects the Eagleton-Hatch Amendment, which declared a right to an abortion is not secured by the Constitution, by a vote of 49-50. A two-thirds vote is required to pass a constitutional amendment

28、.Nov. 10: The U.S. Congress approves the Ashbrook Amendment, barring the use of federal employees health benefits program to pay for abortions, except for the life of the mother.1984June 17: The Reagan Administration announces the Mexico City Policy, denying funds to foreign organizations that perfo

29、rm or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations.Nov. 6: Pro-life President Reagan is reelected, defeating the pro-abortion Democratic ticket of former Vice President Walter Mondale and Rep. Geraldine Ferraro.1985Jan. 7: Pro-Life Perspective, NRLCs daily radio program,

30、 is first aired.June: National Teens for Life is founded.July 10: U.S. House reaffirms the Mexico City Policy by a 45-vote margin. The Kemp/Kasten Amendment is also enacted, denying U.S. population-assistance funds to any organization or program which, as determined by the President, supports or par

31、ticipates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.July 15: U.S. Justice Department files a friend-of-the-court brief in the Thornburgh case urging the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.1986June 11: In Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gy

32、necologists, the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down state laws mandating that an abortionist use the method most likely to allow the child to be born alive in post-viability abortions. It also strikes down womens right to know laws and a waiting period after information is provided to the woman seeking abortion before she can consent to an abortion.Sept. 17: Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Ma.) and other leading pro-abortion senators fail in an attempt to block President Reagans promotion of