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Roe v Wade: One part of the women’s equality movement
Today marks the 37th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on Roe v Wade. Though much has been said about the controversial case, this video segment from the award-winning 2007 PBS series The Supreme Court looks at it from an interesting perspective — as a part of the larger social movement for women's equality and self-determination. The use of archival footage lends authority to how Roe bore the brunt of the cataclysmic cultural divisiveness over women's changing roles in American society that other parallel activist movements driving the still-unratified Equal Rights Amendment and scholastic Title IX sex discrimination ban in the 1970s did not.
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