Center for Reproductive Rights Calls on Obama to Rescind Policy NEW YORK – Just over a month before President George W. Bush’s departure from office, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued a new regulation that will drastically hinder women’s ability to get reproductive health services —including basic care such as contraception, […]
Alaska I. Introduction From time to time, we are called upon to decide constitutional cases that touch upon the most contentious, moral, ethical, and political issues of our day. In deciding such cases, we are ever mindful of the unique role we play in our democratic system of government… https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/AK-S-Ct-Planned-Parenthood-Decision.pdf
ALASKAAk. Const. art. I, § 1This constitution is dedicated to the principles that all persons have a natural right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the enjoyment of the rewards of their own industry, that all persons are equal and entitled to equal rights, opportunities, and protection under the law, and that all […]
المدعون في مرحلة ما بعد محاكمة قصيرة الأدلة المقدمة في المحاكمة تبين أن 24 بينالي الشارقة، الذي يمنع القاصرين دون 17 من ممارسة حقهم الدستوري في الحصول على الإجهاض إلا إذا كانت وحتى الحصول على موافقة أحد الوالدين أو إذن قضائي، غير ضرورية وضارة، وسوف لن يحقق أي هدف شرعي. ذلك أنه ينتهك حقوق النساء […]
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT ANCHORAGE https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Proposed-Findings-of-Fact-Conclusions-of-Law-final.pdf
Filing date: April 2007 Country/Region: Slovakia Center Attorney(s): Christina Zampas Partners: 1) International Women’s Human Rights Law Clinic of the City University of New York School of Law, 2) Slovak Family Planning Association, and 3) ProChoice Slovakia
17-year-old K.L. took on the country Peru for enabling officials to force her to carry a fatally-impaired fetus to term. When our client K.L. was seventeen years old, she found out that she was pregnant with an anencephalic fetus. Even though abortion is legal in Peru for therapeutic reasons, K.L. was illegally denied access to […]
The Center for Reproductive Rights brought this case on behalf of Nebraska abortion provider Dr. Leroy Carhart to challenge Nebraska’s method ban on abortion. That law was part of a wave of similar state bans passed in the early 1990s at the urging of abortion rights opponents, who invented the inflammatory term “partial-birth abortion” as […]
Nebraska The State of Nebraska appeals a District Court 3 decision holding a Nebraska statute banning “partial-birth abortion” unconstitutional. The District Court permanently enjoined enforcement of the statute and awarded attorney’s fees and costs to the plaintiff. The County Attorney, named in the lawsuit in his official capacity and as a representative of all county […]
The Petitioners are Don Stenberg, Attorney General of the State of Nebraska, Gina Dunning, Director of Regulation and Licensure of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, and Charles Andrews, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of the State of Nebraska. An additional Appellant/ Defendant below was Mike Munch, Sarpy County Attorney.The Respondent is LeRoy H. […]