Pregnant Patients' Rights in The United States

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“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

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—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

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—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)

“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)

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—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)