{"id":18757,"date":"2025-03-18T02:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T02:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=18757"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:03:37","slug":"the-right-to-abortion-is-guaranteed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=18757","title":{"rendered":"reproductive rights &#8211; the cluster of civil liberties relating to pregnancy, abortion, and sterilization,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This page is continued from <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=11248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Basics of Law<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=18723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Positive Law v. Natural Law<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***************************************<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">reproductive rights<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n(1966)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. A person&#8217;s constitutionally protected rights relating to the control of his or her procreative activities; specifically, the cluster of civil liberties relating to pregnancy, abortion, and sterilization, esp. the personal bodily rights of a woman in her decision whether to become pregnant or bear a child. * The phrase includes the idea of being able to make reproductive decisions free from discrimination, coercion, or violence. Human-rights scholars increasingly consider many reproductive rights to be protected by international human-rights law.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">civil liberties<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n(17c)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Freedom from undue governmental interference or restraint; especially, the right of all citizens to be free to do as they please while respecting\u00a0 the rights of others. * This term usu. refers to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of association, and other liberties associated with the Bill of Rights. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In American law, early civil liberties were promulgated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/pages\/1647-laws-and-liberties-of-massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lawes and Libertyes of Massachusetts<\/a> (1648) and the Bill of Rights (1791). In English law, examples are found in Magna Carta (1215), the Petition of Right (1628), and the Bill of Rights (1689). \u2014 Also termed <em>civil right<\/em>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I mean by civil liberty that liberty which plainly results from the application of the general idea of freedom to the civil state of man, that is, to his relations as a political being \u2014 a being obliged by his nature and destined by his Creator to live in society. Civil liberty is the result of man\u2019s twofold character, as an individual and social being, so soon as both are equally respected.<\/span>\u201d Francis Lieber, <a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/titles\/woolsey-on-civil-liberty-and-self-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>On Civil Liberty and Self-Government<\/em><\/a> 25 (Theodore D. Woolsey ed., 3d ed. rev. 1883).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Black&#8217;s Law Dictionary 10 ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page is continued from Basics of Law &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Positive Law v. Natural Law: *************************************** reproductive rights (1966) 1. A person&#8217;s constitutionally protected rights relating to the control of his or her procreative activities; specifically, the cluster of civil liberties relating to pregnancy, abortion, and sterilization, esp. the personal bodily rights of a woman in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=18757\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">reproductive rights &#8211; the cluster of civil liberties relating to pregnancy, abortion, and sterilization,<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":18723,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18757","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18765,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18757\/revisions\/18765"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}