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What were the laws on abortion in Tennesse, 1967?

How were the views on abortion in America 1960s?

What is the song about? How does it end? And why?

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What is Roe v. Wade?

Create a timeline in an understandable language from 1973-2022

Create a timeline over Danish abortion laws. What has been discussed in Denmark in 2023 (on abortion).

Find similarities and differences between the Danish and American laws.

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Roe v. Wade, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 1973, ruled (7-2) that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. In a majority opinion written by Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the Court held that a set of Texas statutes criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a constitutional right to privacy, which it found to be implicit in the liberty guarantee of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment ("...nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"). Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022.

The case began in 1970 when "Jane Roe"-a fictional name used to protect the identity of the plaintiff, Norma McCorvey (1947-2017)-instituted federal action against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas county, Texas, where Roe resided. The Supreme Court disagreed with Roe's assertion of an absolute right to terminate pregnancy in any way and at any time. Instead, it attempted to balance what it regarded as a "fundamental" right to privacy with the state's "compelling" interests in protecting the health of pregnant persons and the "potentiality of human life." In doing so, the Court formulated a timetable based on the notions of trimester and fetal viability (i.e., the "capability of meaningful life outside the mother's womb"). During the first trimester of pregnancy, the Court ruled, the state could not intervene in a person's decision to have an abortion under normal circumstances. During the second trimester the state could regulate abortion procedures to protect the health of pregnant persons, but it could not prohibit abortions altogether. From the end of the second trimester, which the Court identified as the starting point of viability, the state could regulate or prohibit abortions in order to protect the pregnant person's health or to preserve fetal viability. In no case, however, could the state criminalize abortions that were necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant person.

Repeated challenges to Roe v. Wade after 1973 narrowed the decision's scope but did not overturn it. In Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992), the Supreme Court established that restrictions on abortion are unconstitutional if they place an "undue burden" on a person seeking an abortion before the fetus is viable. In Gonzales v. Carhart (2007), the Court upheld the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (2003), which prohibited a rarely used abortion procedure known as intact dilation and evacuation. In Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt (2016), the Court invoked its decision in Casey to strike down two provisions of a Texas law requiring that abortion clinics meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers and that doctors performing abortions have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Four years later, in June Medical Services L.L.C. v. Russo (2020), the Court invoked Whole Woman's Health to declare unconstitutional a Louisiana statute that was, as the majority noted, nearly identical to Texas's admitting-privileges law.

In May 2021 the Supreme Court agreed to review in its October 2021 term a lower court's decision to strike down a Mississippi state law, adopted in 2018, that banned most abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, well before the point of fetal viability. Although the law was plainly unconstitutional under Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Mississippi lawmakers passed the measure in the hope that an inevitable legal challenge would eventually make its way to the Supreme Court, where a conservative majority of justices would overturn or drastically reduce the scope of those decisions. The single question that the Court agreed to consider in the case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, was whether bans on all pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional. In May 2022 an apparent draft of a majority opinion in the case, written by Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., was leaked to a political news publication in an extraordinary breach of the traditional secrecy in which the Court conducts its deliberations. The opinion, dated February 2022, indicated that the Court had voted to uphold the Mississippi law and to overturn both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. As expected, both Roe and Casey were overturned (5-4) in the Court's official decision in Dobbs, issued in June 2022, in which Alito held that there is no constitutional right to abortion. Soon after the decision was handed down, several states adopted laws that drastically limited the availability of abortion.

In 1998, having undergone two religious conversions, McCorvey publicly declared her opposition to abortion. However, in the documentary AKA Jane Roe (2020), a dying McCorvey claimed that she had been paid by antiabortion groups to support their cause.

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Roe v. Wade | Summary, Origins, Right to Privacy, & Overturning

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Roe v. Wade, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 1973, ruled (7-2) that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. The Court held that a set of Texas statutes criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a constitutional right to privacy.

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Write 15 sentences on the Knoxville Girl and the story about her.

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The true story is even creepier than the song
By Wayne Bledsoe
"I met a little girl in Knoxville, a town we all know well

And every Sunday evening, out in her home, I'd dwell

We went to take an evening walk about a mile from town

I picked a stick up off the ground and knocked that fair girl down ..."

If you grew up in East Tennessee, you likely know quite well what happens next in the song "Knoxville Girl." The poor girl begs for her life before being bludgeoned to death, dragged across the bloody ground and tossed into the river. That Knoxville is the site of possibly the most famous murder ballad in history is a grisly honor. For years, it was the only thing many outsiders knew about the city.

It's been sung countless times, and it's been recorded by artists as varied as The Blue Sky Boys, The Wilburn Brothers, The Lemonheads, Nick Cave and Arthur Tanner, who's 1925 take is the first known recorded version. The Louvin Brothers, however, were responsible for laying down the most famous version of the song in 1956. Through the years, it has only gained in popularity. After spending an afternoon showing Elvis Costello around downtown Knoxville one day in 2005, I watched him perform the song on stage at the Tennessee Theatre.

"... She fell down on her bended knees, for mercy she did cry

'Oh Willy dear, don't kill me here, I'm unprepared to die'

She never spoke another word, I only beat her more

Until the ground around me within her blood did flow

I took her by her golden curls and I drug her round and around

Throwing her into the river that flows through Knoxville town

"Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl with the dark and rolling eyes

Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl, you can never be my bride ..."

It should come as some comfort that the murder didn't actually take place in Knoxville. Until recently, there was only speculation that the song was about a real event at all. It's been well known that there was a direct link between the songs "Knoxville Girl," "The Berkshire Tragedy" (an English ballad that dates to at least the mid-1700s) and "The Bloody Miller," which was first documented in the late 1600s.

In "The Berkshire Tragedy," the murder only starts with a bludgeoning by stick. The murderer begins by whacking the poor girl in the face, then slits her mouth "from ear to ear" and finishes her off by stabbing her in the head. "The Bloody Miller" is a much longer song, and any number of folk variations (one places the incident in Lexington, Kentucky) have sprung from the various lyrics both in Britain and the United States, with different "Miller" lyrics appearing in them.

In his research for the book "Unprepared to Die," author Paul Slade finally got to the bottom of the story. I spoke with Slade in 2015 when his book was published and was amazed at what he'd uncovered. The actual murder that formed the basis for the ballads occurred in 1683 in the Shorpshire area of England. The victim was named Anne Nichols, and her murderer was Francis Cooper. A child named Icabod was born to Nichols near the time of her murder and was baptized 23 days after his mother was buried.

Slade found the records in the Shorpshire library's collection, which contained parish records from the 1600s.

"I was able to go through the village documents and actually find the handwritten version of the two individuals' names in the old parish register," said Slade. "That was an astonishing moment. It sounds incredibly nerdy, but just the thrill of actually seeing their names after following the trail that far was just a marvelous moment."

In "Knoxville Girl," the reason for the murder is never quite explained. It's a little clearer in the older songs: The murderer had had sex with the victim but didn't want to marry her. You might assume that the killer had gotten his victim pregnant, but knowing that a child was actually born from the tryst is a real revelation. Of course, the question then becomes: Did the killer wait until the child was born before murdering the mother, or was the child delivered after her death?

"I guess those are the only two possibilities," said Slade. "Maybe a living baby was cut from its dead mother's womb. I guess that's just about possible. That would've been a very, very rare occasion. But Icabod's name is there. You can't deny his existence, but I certainly can't explain how that element of the story happened."

To understand how and why the song changed, you have to imagine how early balladeers operated. They traveled with new songs, often based on lurid news events, and sometimes another singer would simply remember the song as best he or she could and perform it, passing it on. At other times, the song lyrics were preserved on pages that the singers would sell.

"They knew what sort of ballads would sell, and they brought the same sort of instincts which a tabloid news reporter would bring to these stories," said Slade. "They always amped up the drama and always brought the most sensational aspects of the story to the foreground."

While the broadsheets of balladeers have been saved in British libraries, the songs also were preserved by being passed down in communities and families of European immigrants who settled in the mountains of Appalachia. Sometimes the songs were adapted to more current times.

Slade dispelled the speculation that "Knoxville Girl" was inspired by the murder of Mary Noel in Pineville, Missouri, in 1892. The murder (documented from historical sources in Slade's book) is strikingly similar to the murder in Shorpshire. In fact, balladeers from the time adapted the song to that murder and called it "The Noel Girl."

"The links between 'Knoxville Girl,' 'The Berkshire Tragedy' and 'The Bloody Miller' are so clear that there's simply no denying that 'Knoxville Girl' began with those two old English songs," said Slade. "The imagery is the same, and so many of the lines are almost identical in the way they're phrased. ... You can see that once it's been rewritten as an American song that there would've been a desire to find an appropriate murder to pin it to."

The key element that connects all of the versions of the song, said Slade, is the killer's bloody nose, which shows up in nearly all of the variations.

"... I started back to Knoxville, got there about midnight

My mother, she was worried and woke up in a fright

Saying 'Dear son, what have you done to bloody your clothes so?'

I told my anxious mother I was bleeding at my nose ..."

It's the nasal element that makes another murder ballad, "The Banks of the Ohio," somewhat different, although the murder in that song contains the victim pleading for her life in almost the same way as "Knoxville Girl" (albeit before being stabbed rather than beaten to death) and being thrown into a river. And in this case, it was the murderer who wanted to marry the victim rather than the other way around. But, of course, "The Bloody Miller" had both a bludgeoning and a knife attack, so it's likely that "Banks of the Ohio" stems from that same 1683 murder, as well.

Slade referred to the bloody nose as the "DNA" that connected "Knoxville Girl" to all its earlier variants. But there's other DNA that he'd like to know about, too: He could find no record of Icabod after his baptism.

"It raises the interesting possibility that Icabod may well have had children himself and, if there's a family line that extends into today, that it could be that Anne and Francis' distant relatives are still around."

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No assignment, but you might want to watch it again

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The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the decades-old Roe v. Wade decision, which said women have a constitutional right to have an abortion. Here's a look at the case's beginning.

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Why do you think abortion creates big debate around the world?

Why is the debate on abortion often on gender/sex as well?

Do you have your own opinion on abortions? Do you want to share it with me?

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We've listened to episode 1: Sad Ass Songs (12.25-28.00)

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Dolly Parton’s America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

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The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

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BEFORE you read the article

How would you describe a good father? (Good according to you)

How would you describe a good mother? (Good according to you)

Read the article and answer the following questions:

What is the article about?

What is the issue? Describe the two different opinions.

Do you think it is a problem? Why/Why not?

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All hail the hyper-speed Hollywood romance. After four years of marriage, pop songstrel Joe Jonas is divorcing Westerosette Sophie Turner. Facts of the separation are thin on the ground, and I don't really want to speculate on the icky ins and outs of uncoupling in the public eye when you have two small kids, but as Jonas has reportedly hired Tiger Woods's divorce attorney and a bad-mother narrative is already leaking (deliberately rolling?) out against Turner....

Sources close to the couple say Jonas has been exhaustingly trying to salvage the marriage, that filing for divorce is his last resort, and, tellingly, that Turner likes to party, whereas Jonas likes to stay at home. "They have very different lifestyles," a source told TMZ. It's an interesting strategy, to lightly tinker on keys of absent motherhood, broadly painting Turner's alleged over-partying as a hindrance to fully serving the domestic needs of her family. From an outsider's point of view, Team Jonas is throwing a careless-mother narrative at proceedings and seeing if it sticks, sowing seeds of his wife being a less-than-gold-star parent. Nobody is saying out loud she's subpar; it's just heavily, heavily insinuated that her liking to go out clashes with his homebody status. It's very read between the lines, please, she is not mothering at an acceptable standard.

This isn't a new narrative-a woman supposedly underperforming as a mother-and speaks to centuries-old societal expectations on women to place nurture, for their men and their children, in front of their own needs. Having given birth, there's an expectation for women to fully surrender all former parts of themselves for motherhood, to emerge postnatal as mothers (TM), forfeiting their desires and autonomy.

What will happen if women don't fulfill our rules for mothers? God forbid a woman isn't a domestic goddess. God forbid a woman isn't balled and chained to her partner and offspring. God forbid she isn't at home right this minute. Whatever next? Women working? Women voting? Women thinking for themselves!? I'm being deliberately facetious because the misogyny here is so ridiculously stark. All these motherly expectations serve only to keep women repressed. A barrage of judgment against their decisions keeps them in narrowly confined roles-Madonna or whore; party girl or good mother. There's a feeling of comply or be socially shunned, be femininely docile or be called a witch.

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The Internet Is Taking Sides in the Matter of Jonas vs. Turner-And, for Once, It's Right

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The internet has done me proud this week, seeing the misogynistic undertones of Joe Jonas's reported allegations against his estranged wife, Sophie Turner, a mile out.

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BEFORE you open the link

Who is Andrew Tate?

Which words come to mind when you think of him?

Read the interview

What is toxic masculinity?

Why is it toxic?

How are men victims as well?

What does it have to do with feminism?

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Toxic masculinity expert: ‘Andrew Tate is a disaster’ – DW – 09/18/2023

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Big muscles, zero emotion and women as sex objects: toxic masculinity is abundant on the internet. The men who propagate this violent ideology are also victims of it, explains researcher Michael Flood.

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Questions: Expectations - Roles - Gender

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Questions: Expectations - Roles - Gender

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Questions on abortions, expectations, roles and gender.