In the Courts
Woman Wrongfully Imprisoned After Obstetric Emergency Is Denied Freedom
Woman Wrongfully Imprisoned After Obstetric Emergency Is Denied Freedom (PRESS RELEASE) The San Salvador Second Tribunal of Sentence (Tribunal Segundo de Sentencia de San Salvador) has denied freedom to Teodora del Carmen Vásquez (37 years old), a pregnant woman who suffered a stillbirth and was wrongfully sentenced to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide. […]
Salvadoran Court Hearing in Case of Teodora, Woman Wrongfully Imprisoned Postponed
Salvadoran Court Hearing in Case of Teodora, Woman Wrongfully Imprisoned Postponed (PRESS RELEASE) Teodora del Carmen Vásquez was scheduled for a sentence revision hearing today after being wrongfully convicted of having an abortion and sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2007. The San Salvador Second Tribunal of Sentence suspended the hearing until next week […]
Hopkins v. Jegley: Brief of Appellants
Permanent Injunction – Whole Woman’s Health v. Paxton
Texas Court Strikes Down Ban on Safest, Most Common Method of Abortion After Approximately 15 Weeks
Texas Court Strikes Down Ban on Safest, Most Common Method of Abortion (Press Release) Today, a federal district court judge struck down a Texas measure banning the safest and most common method of ending a pregnancy after approximately 15 weeks. The decision comes in a challenge to provisions of S.B. 8, brought by the Center […]
Whole Woman’s Health v. Paxton Memorandum Opinion
Federal Court Rejects Bid to Halt Center for Reproductive Rights Lawsuit Against Louisiana Abortion Restrictions
Federal Court Rejects Bid to Halt Center for Reproductive Rights Lawsuit Against Louisiana Abortion Restrictions (PRESS RELEASE) – A Louisiana federal court today rejected in large part the state’s efforts to shut down litigation brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights challenging every abortion restriction passed by the state in 2016, finding that there is […]