"Some protected women from "the embarrassment of hearing filthy evidence" as members of a jury, a sheltering instinct that resulted in female defendants being judged by panels composed only of men.
Some shielded women from having to work nights as pharmacists in hospitals - but not as low-wage custodians...
"Any new law that claims to protect women's health and safety should be scrutinized carefully to assess whether its ostensibly protective function actually serves to deny liberty and equal citizenship to women," said the brief filed by 16 historians, 13 of whom are women...
It is part of an avalanche of amicus briefs filed by both sides in the case, which will be the court's most important look at abortion rights in decades."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-supreme-court-abortion-20160207-story.html
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