Nebraska BRIEF OF THE CATO INSTITUTE AS AMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTSThe Cato Institute respectfully submits this brief as amicus curiae in support of respondents. Letters of consent have been filed with the Clerk.INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAEThe Cato Institute (“Cato”) was established in 1977 as a non-partisan public policy research foundation dedicated to advancing […]
STATEMENT OF INTERESTNebraska, 2006 The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (“ACOG”) is a non-profit educational and professional organization founded in 1951. ACOG is the leading professional association of physicians who specialize in the health care of women. Its more than 50,000 members represent approximately 90% of all board-certified obstetricians and gynecologists practicing in the […]
Nepal’s punitive approach to abortion has threatened women’s lives and health, reinforced entrenched gender discrimination, and interfered with women’s decision-making on a matter with immense personal implications. Those who have been arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned on abortion-related offenses have been subjected to violations of their basic rights as criminal defendants and prisoners. Abuses include systematic […]
Filing date: April 2004 Country/Region: , Nepal Plaintiff(s): Achyut Prasad Kharel Center Attorney(s): , Melissa Upreti Partners: Forum for Women, Law, and Development (FLWD) Summary: On August 4, Nepal’s Supreme Court dismissed a case that had aimed to overturn the country’s abortion law, which allows abortion upon request up to 12 weeks. The law was […]
In April 2005, Colombian citizen Monica Róa, a former Center fellow and current attorney at Women’s Link Worldwide, filed a petition with the Colombian Constitutional Court challenging the constitutionality of Colombia’s abortion law, which categorically prohibited abortion. Her petition argued that the Constitution of Colombia requires exceptions to the prohibition of abortion that protect a […]
In May 2007, The Center for Reproductive Rights and Yale University’s Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic submitted a joint friend-of-the-court brief to the Supreme Court of Nicaragua. Country/Region: , Nicaragua/LAC Center Attorney(s): , Lilian Sepúlveda and Alejandra Cardenas Partners: Ipas Central America and the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH) Summary: , Filed […]
In April 2005, the Center filed an amicus brief with the European Court of Human Rights in support of a woman, D., who alleged that Ireland’s prohibition of abortion constitutes a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. Filing date: April 2005 Country/Region: Ireland Plaintiff(s): D., a woman who was pregnant with twins, decided […]
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Filing date: 06/29/04 State: Mississippi Plaintiff(s): , Jackson Women’s Health Organization Center Attorney(s): , Bonnie Scott Jones Co-Counsel/Cooperating Attorneys: , S. Mark Wann at Maxey Wann, PLLC (local) Summary: The Center for Reproductive Rights brought this case in 2004 on behalf of the only remaining abortion facility in Mississippi, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, against […]
Filing date: 03/01/05 State: Michigan Plaintiff(s): Northland Family Planning Clinic, Inc., Northland Family Planning Clinic, Inc. – West, Northland Family Planning Clinic, Inc. – East, Summit Medical Center, Inc., Planned Parenthood Mid-Michigan Alliance, and Planned Parenthood of South Central Michigan, on Behalf of Themselves and Their Physicians, Staff and Patients, and Stanley M. Berry, M.D., […]