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The Right to Quality Maternal Health Care in Kenya: The Josephine Majani Cases

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.

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Josephine Oundo Ongwen v. the Attorney General and 4 Others (Bungoma High Court Petition No. 5 of 2014)

The landmark 2018 judgment in this case recognized the right to quality maternal health care in Kenya.

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Hodes & Nauser v. Kobach

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County Government of Bungoma & 2 Others v. Josephine Oundo Ongwen (a.k.a. Josephine Majani) & 2 Others (Kenya Civil Appeal No. 61 of 2018)

This case involves the appeal by the County Government of Bungoma of a landmark 2018 judgment on the right to maternity care.

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All Families Healthcare, Blue Mountain Clinic, and Helen Weems v. State of Montana and Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services

This case challenges restrictive licensing requirements for Montana abortion clinics.

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Adkins v. State of Idaho

This case seeks to clarify and expand the medical exceptions to Idaho’s two abortion bans to ensure physicians can provide abortion care to preserve a pregnant person’s health and safety, including in cases of fatal fetal diagnoses.

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Blackmon v. State of Tennessee

This case challenges Tennessee’s total abortion ban as applied to pregnant people with emergent medical conditions.

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Medical Emergency Exceptions to State Abortion Bans: Idaho, Tennessee and Oklahoma

Complaints filed to ensure pregnant people in dire situations can access abortion care and that doctors are given clarity on “medical emergency” exceptions in their state’s abortion bans.

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District Court Ruling in Whole Woman’s Health Alliance v. FDA

On August 21, 2023, a federal court in Virginia denied the Center’s request for a preliminary injunction that would have protected access to the abortion pill mifepristone in Virginia, Montana, and Kansas. In its ruling, [...]

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Zurawski v. State of Texas

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Constitutional Court of Colombia Ruling C-055 of 2022 (English version)

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PPSAT v. South Carolina

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OCRJ v. State of Oklahoma

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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