In 2005, anti-choice organizations in Ecuador filed a suit to outlaw emergency contraception, alleging that EC violates the right to life as established in the Ecuadorian constitution. As a result of their lawsuit, a lower court banned distribution of EC, and the Ministry of Health appealed this decision. The Center, in collaboration with the Latin […]
On June 5, 2008, in a landmark decision, the Colombian Council of State ruled against anti-choice groups’ efforts to ban emergency contraception. The court found that emergency contraception, commonly known as the “morning-after pill,” is a contraceptive method and not an abortifacient, and therefore, access to emergency contraception is in accordance with the right to […]
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 […]
International human rights law protects the rights of women to have access to voluntary sterilization services free of coercion, discrimination, and violence. In April 2004, the Center prepared a legal memorandum on the illegality of coercive sterilization under international human rights law, and an analysis of possible remedial measures to address such abuses using comparative […]
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 […]
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 […]
In 1997, the Alaska legislature passed a bill which, if it had gone into effect, would have prevented any unmarried woman under 17 years of age from having an abortion in Alaska unless she has obtained the consent of a parent, guardian or custodian, or a court order authorizing the procedure. , CRR immediately challenged […]
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., […]
