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Abortion - History - created

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Abortion - History This article traces the practice and regulation of ending a pregnancy before birth, from antiquity to the present, across legal, medical, and religious contexts. For the underlying subject, see Abortion. For present-day arguments and disputes, see

Abortion - Dobbs v. Jackson Controversy - created

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Abortion - Dobbs v. Jackson Controversy Lede The Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (decided June 24, 2022) overturned Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), eliminating the federal constitutional right to abortion recognized in those earlier rulings and returning the authority to regulate or prohibit abortion to individual states and Congress. The decision is contested on multiple, overlapping grounds: whether the constitutional reason…

Abortion - Pro-Choice Viewpoint - created

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Abortion - Pro-Choice Viewpoint The pro-choice viewpoint holds that a woman has a moral and legal right to decide whether to continue or terminate a pregnancy, at least through some portion of gestation, and that this decision should not be subject to criminal prohibition by the state. Pro-choice advocates include liberal and secular ethicists, many physicians and public health organizations, civil libertarians, and a range of religious voices from liberal Protestant, Reform and Reconstructioni…

Abortion - Secular Pro-Life Viewpoint - created

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Abortion - Secular Pro-Life Viewpoint The secular pro-life viewpoint holds that induced abortion unjustifiably ends the life of a distinct, living member of the human species, and that this conclusion follows from biology, ethics, and human rights reasoning alone, without reliance on scripture, religious authority, or theological premises about ensoulment. Holders of this view include atheists, agnostics, humanists, and religious people who deliberately set aside faith-based premises in public …

Abortion

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Abortion Abortion refers to the termination of a pregnancy before the fetus reaches viability outside the womb, whether induced deliberately or occurring spontaneously. The term is most commonly used to describe induced abortion — a deliberate medical or surgical procedure to end a pregnancy — as distinct from miscarriage, which is spontaneous. What moral, legal, and political status abortion should have is among the most widely debated questions in contemporary public life; how the act itself …

[Hillary Clinton]

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[Hillary Clinton] Lede Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton has held several prominent roles in American politics: she served as U.S. Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009, and First Lady during Bill Clinton's presidency from 1993 to 2001. In 2016, she was the Democratic Party's nominee in the presidential election, becoming the first woman nominated by a major party for president.

Atlantic - History - [Ancient and Medieval Contacts]

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Atlantic - History This article traces the history of the Atlantic Ocean as a zone of human contact, exchange, and conflict - from early crossings and the emergence of sustained trade networks to the development of the Atlantic world as a conceptual and geopolitical unit. See

Progressive Era - History - [Immigration Restriction and Eugenics]

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Progressive Era - History This article traces the historical development of the Progressive Era in the United States, from its roots in the social disruptions of industrialization through its legislative culmination in the early 1920s. For analysis of competing interpretations of the era's significance and legacy, see

Democracy - created

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Democracy Democracy is a system of government in which political authority derives from the people, typically exercised through voting, elected representation, or direct participation in collective decisions. The term originates from the Greek demokratia

Modern American Progressivism - [Introduction]

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Modern American Progressivism " Editorial note: This entry documents the modern American progressive viewpoint as understood by its adherents. Contrasting perspectives are available elsewhere in the wiki." Introduction Modern American progressivism is a political tradition built on a recurring conviction: that the promises embedded in the nation's founding ideals — equality, self-governance, and broadly shared prosperity — have been systematically withheld from large portions of the populati…

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1619 Project

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1619 Project The 1619 Project is an ongoing editorial and educational initiative launched by The New York Times Magazine in August 2019. Conceived by journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, it proposes reframing American history by placing the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in English-controlled North America - at Point Comfort, Virginia, in August 1619 - as a foundational moment in the nation's story. The project argues that many defining features of American democracy, capitalism, and culture…

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