“Allowing Domestic Violence Perpetrators to Carry Guns Will Worsen the U.S. Maternal Health Crisis”
In articles for MS. and Teen Vogue, the Center's Tamar Eisen and Diana Kasdan discuss the intersection between intimate-partner violence and guns and a U.S. Supreme Court case that will determine if the government can protect survivors of domestic violence by temporarily disarming their abusers.
On Tuesday, November 7, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in United States v. Rahimi, a case in which the Court will decide whether the Second Amendment prevents the government from protecting survivors of domestic violence by temporarily disarming their abusers.
In an opinion piece in Ms., Tamar Eisen, program coordinator for the Center’s Judicial Strategy team, writes that invalidating this law would exacerbate an already colossal maternal and reproductive health and rights crisis in the United States and have devastating consequences. The Center submitted an amicus brief to argue those points to the Court.
“There is a deadly intersection between intimate-partner violence and guns,” said Diana Kasdan, the Center’s director of judicial strategy, in an article for Teen Vogue. “And [the federal law at the center of Rahimi] is one that has been shown to reduce the risk of homicide and harm for pregnant and postpartum people.”
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