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News Coverage: Center Argues Case at Texas Supreme Court

Media coverage on more women denied abortion care who joined Zurawski v. Texas.

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Written Opinion on the Right to Care and its Relation to Reproductive Autonomy Submitted Before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Opinion by the Center and its partners argues that care—including caring for others, being cared for and self-care—should be considered a universal and autonomous human right.

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News Coverage: Seven New Plaintiffs Join Center Lawsuit Against Texas

Media coverage on more women denied abortion care who joined Zurawski v. Texas.

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News Coverage: Zurawski v. State of Texas

Center Argues Abortion Ban Medical Exceptions Case at Texas Supreme Court, 11.28.23 Center’s “Emergency Medical” Exceptions Case Heads to Texas Supreme Court November 28, 11.21.23 More Women Join Lawsuit Against Texas After Being Denied Abortion [...]

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Hodes & Nauser v. Kobach

This case challenges a Kansas regulatory scheme that forces providers to relay inaccurate information to patients and makes it more difficult for Kansans to access abortion care.

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“Allowing Domestic Violence Perpetrators to Carry Guns Will Worsen the U.S. Maternal Health Crisis” card link

“Allowing Domestic Violence Perpetrators to Carry Guns Will Worsen the U.S. Maternal Health Crisis”

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.

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Victory in Kenya: Court of Appeal Affirms Right to Respectful Maternal Health Care, 02.28.24 Kenya Court of Appeal Expected to Issue Judgment Friday in Case of Pregnant Woman Abused by Hospital Staff and Forced to [...]

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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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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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

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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Two Plaintiffs in Idaho Case Discuss Being Denied Abortion Care on “This American Life”

Despite facing fatal fetal diagnoses that endangered their health and lives, women were denied care under Idaho's abortion bans.

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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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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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