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Privacy, Reproduction and Personal Autonomy Cases

Decisions on the limits of state control of intimate life: contraception, abortion, compulsory sterilisation and the right to privacy, from Griswold and Roe to the Canadian Morgentaler decision, the Colombian abortion ruling and the Indian privacy judgment. A case belongs here when its cited article describes it as a decision on reproduction or personal autonomy. It excludes speech and religion cases.

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Buck v Bell (Wikipedia)
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Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., in which the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, "for the protection and health of the state" did not violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Roe v. Wade (Wikipedia)
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Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right of pregnant women to choose to have an abortion before the point of fetal viability.
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Griswold v. Connecticut (Wikipedia)
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Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects the liberty of married couples to use contraceptives without government restriction.
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Puttaswamy v. Union of India (Wikipedia)
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Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) & Anr. vs. Union of India & Ors. (2017), commonly known as the Right to Privacy verdict, was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of India, which held that the right to privacy is protected as a fundamental right under Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India.
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R v Morgentaler (Wikipedia)
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is a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada which held that the abortion provision in the Criminal Code was unconstitutional because it violated women's rights to security of the person under section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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