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US Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) warns that she will use procedural tactics to slow Senate business to a crawl if an anti-abortion provision is not removed from a $388 billion must-pass spending bill. The provision would allow publically funded hospitals and health care providers to opt out of state ... |
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Congress passes a mammoth $388 Billion spending bill. Language limiting abortion education remained in the bill, as Senate opponents agreed not to block its consideration when Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., promised to schedule a vote in the near future on a bill drafted by Sen. Barbar ... |
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Senator Arlen Specter (R, PA) bluntly warns President Bush against putting forth Supreme Court nominees with an agenda to overturn abortion rights or have other ultra-right wing views. |
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U.S. District Judge Richard C. Casey in Manhattan finds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional because it does not include a health exception. |
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The Bush administration announces that it will withhold the United States' contribution to the UN Population Fund for the third straight year in a row. The Bush administration said the fund's cooperation with Chinese government programs amounted to support of the country's coercive practices, which ... |
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U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton permanently blocks the Bush administration from enforcing the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act against Planned Parenthood Federation of America clinics and their doctors. "The act poses an undue burden on a woman's right to choose an abortion," Hamilton wrote in he ... |
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Women cadets enter the U.S. Air Force Academy for the first time. |
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Lt.JG Barbara Allen bocomes the US Navy's first female aviator. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision on Roe vs. Wade. |
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The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification. |
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Women win the right to vote in Switzerland. |
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Peron gives Argentina women the right to vote. |
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After departing New Guinea, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear near Howland Island during her second attemot at an around the world flight. |
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Rebecca Latimer Felton, from the US State of Georgia, becomes the first female US Senator upon taking the oath of office. |
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The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote, is signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby. |
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Susan B Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to cast a vote for President. |
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Women's suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time and is later punished with a $100 fine. |
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The territory of Wyoming passes the first women's suffrage law. In 1870, women will begin to serve on juries in the territory. |
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