Nevertheless, Blackmun wrote, "the right to reproductive choice" was in danger of being overturned.
The fact is: all adolescent girls have the right to quality reproductive health information and care.
Post-Cairo, the talk is of women's rights and reproductive rights, meaning the right to a free choice over whether or not to have children.
Other divisive questions such as whether same-sex couples should have the right to free reproductive assistance, and the rights of same-sex couples who aren't married to adopt will be tackled in a "complementary law" on the family, he said, allowing further debate on the issue.
"It's different in degree but not in kind from the opposition we see in this country in state legislatures to reproductive freedom as a basic human right, " said Steinem.
We have stepped up enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, protecting the right to access and provide reproductive health services without interference.
The continued right wing attempts to limit reproductive rights of women, and the recent response from the left to require men who use Viagra to have psychiatric evaluations, prostate exams and cardiac stress tests, begs the question again: should politics have a role in healthcare?
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You see fiscal conservatives in the center more often tending to identify themselves as socially liberal, supporting issues like gay marriage and the right for a woman to choose control over her reproductive condition.
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If the motto of the Rio conference is to be realized, that is, to build "the future we want, " leaders must step up and call for universal access to reproductive health and voluntary family planning for women everywhere who are denied this right.
"We are so inundated right now, " said Robin von Halle, president of Alternative Reproductive Resources.
"We are deeply disappointed that just days after President Obama proclaimed his commitment to women's reproductive rights, his administration has decided once again to deprive women of their right to obtain emergency contraception without unjustified and burdensome restrictions, " said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the lawsuit that prompted Korman's ruling.
"It was important for women to be able to legally ensure their right to make their own decision, " said Laube, who is chairman of Physicians for Reproductive Health Choice.
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