State legislation reflects the polarizing nation, with some states acting to strongly protect reproductive rights and access, and others finding new ways to criminalize abortion care despite the health effects.
This policy report by the Center provides an overview of the U.S. state policy landscape after tracking almost 2,000 bills proposed in state legislatures relating to reproductive care.
The Center is defending a 2018 judgment recognizing that the neglect and abuse of women seeking maternity health services are rights violations under the Kenyan Constitution and international law.
The Center’s Tamar Eisen and Diana Kasdan explain how the right to life and reproductive autonomy includes the right to live free from violence at the hands of intimate partners.
More about plaintiff Josephine Majani.
The landmark 2018 ruling in Josephine Oundo Ongwen v. Attorney General and 4 Others (Bungoma High Court Petition No. 5 of 2014)—which recognized the right to quality maternal health care in Kenya—and the appeal of the ruling by Bungoma County.
The landmark 2018 judgment in this case recognized the right to quality maternal health care in Kenya.
This case involves the appeal by the County Government of Bungoma of a landmark 2018 judgment on the right to maternity care.
In its 2023–2024 term, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case challenging a law that prohibits people subject to restraining orders for domestic violence from possessing firearms. On August 21, 2023, the Center and its pro bono partner, Proskauer Rose LLP, filed this amicus brief in U.S. v. Rahimi in support of the law.