Recommendations for EU Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025
Recommendations by the Center for Reproductive Rights to the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, 12/03/19.
Recommendations by the Center for Reproductive Rights to the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, 12/03/19.
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/20191203-SCOTUS-Amicus-featurebanner.jpg Hundreds of organizations and individuals urge Supreme Court to strike down Louisiana abortion restriction A collection of nearly 200 organizations and more than 700 individuals representing leading voices in medicine, law, and public policy, along with people impacted by abortion restrictions, today filed amicus briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court voicing opposition to a […]
Amicus is the Constitutional Accountability Center, a public interest law firm and think tank. The brief argues that the text and history of the Fourteenth Amendment protect a robust right to liberty, including the right to end a pregnancy. The Fifth Circuit abdicated its responsibility to protect that right. History shows that the framers of […]
Amici served as federal judges and senior officials in the United States Department of Justice. This bipartisan group does not submit its brief to address the correctness of this Court’s abortion cases, but instead sounds a bipartisan call urging the Supreme Court not to countenance the Fifth Circuit’s open defiance of the Supreme Court’s 2016 […]
Amici are the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana. The brief argues that multiple courts across the country have found admitting privileges requirements have no benefits and cause severe burdens to abortion access because hospitals will not grant privileges for a host of reasons unrelated to provider competency. Requiring providers to make […]
Amici are women from all walks of life who chose to have an abortion. These signers share personal stories demonstrating that access to abortion is essential for women to be equal participants in society. Signers sought abortion under varied circumstances, in different stages of life. None regret their decision, and all strongly believe that the […]
Amici are the National Health Law Program and the National Network of Abortion Funds. The brief argues that Act 620 will have a particularly harmful impact on vulnerable populations. Low-income pregnant people are more likely to need abortion care and less likely to be able to afford the service once access is decimated. Low-income people […]
Amici are social science researchers who have collectively spent decades conducting and publishing research about the safety, incidence, and impacts of state regulation on abortion access in the United States. These signers present research that abortion is a safe, common medical procedure, and Act 620 will do nothing to make it safer or improve the […]
Amici are legal scholars with expertise in reproductive justice. The brief argues that abortion is part of a broader right to reproductive autonomy, and abortion restrictions must be evaluated using an intersectional lens. When measuring a regulation’s burden, courts must consider particular populations or groups of women that will be impacted by the regulation – […]