Key women's rights cases: In re Bradwell – Illinois, 1869 (55 Ill. 535); In re Goodell – Wisconsin, 1875 (39 Wis. 232); In re Petition of Leach – Indiana, 1893 (34 N.E. 641); Gougar v. Timberlake – Indiana, 1897 (46 N.E. 339); Attorney General v. Abbott – Michigan, 1899 (80 N.W. 372)
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Arabella Mansfield (courtesy Wikipedia) “While those theories which are popularly known as “woman’s rights” cannot be expected to meet with a very cordial acceptance among the members of a profession, which, more than any other, inclines its followers, if not to stand immovable upon the ancient ways, at least to make no hot haste in measures of reform, still, all right minded men must gladly see new spheres of action opened to woman, and greater inducements offered her to seek the highest and widest culture.” (542) - Justice Charles Lawrence, in In re Bradwell
“The law of nature destines and qualifies the female sex for the bearing and nurture of the children of our race and for the custody of the homes of the world … And all life-long callings … inconsistent with these radical and sacred duties of their sex, as I the profession of law, are departures from the order of nature.” -Chief Justice Edward Ryan, in In re Goodell |
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