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Women's Reproductive Rights Timeline

CLD Students for Reproductive Rights

Definition of Women's Rights: “Women's sexual and reproductive health is related to multiple human rights, including the right to life, the right to be free from torture, the right to health, the right to privacy, the right to education, and the prohibition of discrimination.” (Sexual and reproductive health and rights)

1820s

1820s: Early Abortion Methods and First Abortion Regulation

1820s: First methods of abortion

1820s

Herbs and fungi used for abortion methods, but are often deadly for those who use them (Reproductive rights in history).

First Abortion Regulation

1821

Connecticut was the first country to make regulations about abortion, where women could not use poisons to abort a fetus. The punishment would be a life sentence (Reproductive rights in history).

1850s-1860s: Abortion Criminalization and Condemnation

1850s -

1860s

1857-1860

Attempts to criminalize abortion in several states and multiple states set laws that restricted abortion (Reproductive rights in history).

1857-1860

1869

Catholic church condemns abortion at any stage of a pregnancy (Reproductive rights in history).

1869

1873: Passing of the Comstock Law

1873

Comstock law: Law passed by Congress that bans the information and distribution of contraceptives, which then caused 24 states to follow their lead and issue laws that regulated contraceptives (Reproductive rights in history).

1916: First Birth Control Clinic

First birth control clinic opened by Margaret Sanger in Brooklyn, but then Sanger is arrested ten days later (Reproductive rights in history).

1916

1930: Unsafe Abortions

Unsafe abortions rise in 1930 to be the cause of nearly 2,700 deaths of women (Historical abortion law timeline: 1850 to Today).

1930

1950s: Reproductive rights start to gain more importance

1950s

1951

First birth control pill starting to be developed by scientist Gregory Pincus along with help from Margaret Sanger (proponent of women's rights)

(Reproductive rights in history).

1951

1955

First conference on abortion legalization by Planned Parenthood. Proposed that abortion laws should be rewritten (Historical abortion law timeline: 1850 to Today).

1960s: Birth Control Pill and Griswold v. Connecticut

1960s

1960

First birth control pill approved by the FDA (Reproductive rights in history).

1960

1965

Griswold v. Connecticut: Supreme Court case that ruled that married couples could have the right to contraception (Reproductive rights in history).

1973: Roe v. Wade

1973

A woman with the fictional name Jane Roe lived in Texas where a law that made abortion illegal (unless by doctor’s orders and a life or death situation) took place. She decided to file a lawsuit against Henry Wade, who was the district attorney of Dallas County.

This decision was argued for three years, until 1973 when the decision was finally made that abortion was a constitutional right in the country.

(“Roe v. Wade'').

1980s-1990s: More forms of birth control approved and Planned Parenthood v. Casey

1980s -

1990s

1984

Another form of birth control, the UID, is approved by the FDA (Historical abortion law timeline: 1850 to Today).

1984

1992

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, “undue burden” framework that then led to it being more difficult in challenging laws that did not prohibit abortion fully (Historical abortion law timeline: 1850 to Today).

2021: Texas Six-Week Ban

2021

Texas implemented a law that bans abortion at six weeks of pregnancy, called the S.B.8. The Supreme Court allowed it even though many were against it (Historical abortion law timeline: 1850 to Today).

2022: Overturning of Roe v. Wade

2022

May 2022: The decision for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked.

June 24th, 2022: The Supreme Court officially overturned Roe v. Wade– the Supreme Court case in the 1970s that declared the right to an abortion. This means that now states can restrict/ban abortion if they choose to.

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