and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The day is named for the landmark decision, Loving v. Virginia.
In the five decades since the decision, interracial marriage has increased dramatically. In 2015, one in six newlyweds had a spouse of a different race or ethnicity, which is more than five times higher than the number of intermarried newlyweds in 1967, according to Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.More than 30 years after the Loving v. Virginia decision, designer Ken Tanabe learned of the monumental ruling while in graduate school at Parsons School of Design.
Tanabe said the name is "not just a reference to a real couple who fought racial injustice, it also represents the love that we give to each other."In 1958, Mildred Loving got pregnant and the couple traveled to Washington, D.C., to get married. They then returned home to Caroline County, Virginia, and not long after, they were awakened in the middle of the night by policeman who informed them they were breaking the law.
last year, it noted abortion isn't explicitly included in the Constitution. But some advocates pointed out the same is true for many other rights millions of Americans take for granted: The right to same-sex marriage, the right to access contraception, the right to privacy, among others. Those rights were grounded in the 14th Amendment in the same way that abortion was.
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