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.
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.
Opinion for the Commission on Reproductive Self-Determination and Reproductive Medicine (Germany)
Stellungnahme für die Kommission zur Reproduktiven Selbstbestimmung und Fortpflanzungsmedizin (Deutschland)
Medical Emergency Exceptions to State Abortion Bans
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.
Center Leaders in Latin America Discuss Mexico Ruling Decriminalizing Abortion
Historic decision by Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice will increase abortion access nationwide and marks another victory for the Latin American Green Wave movement.
Medical Emergency Exceptions to State Abortion Bans
Blackmon v. State of Tennessee
This case challenges Tennessee’s total abortion ban as applied to pregnant people with emergent medical conditions.
Medical Emergency Exceptions to State Abortion Bans
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.
Legal Retrogression and the Harms of Louisiana’s Near Total Abortion Bans: A Report to the Human Rights Committee 139 Session, United States
This human rights “shadow report,” jointly submitted by four organizations to the UN Human Rights Committee, represents early findings from fact-finding research underway in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana, where abortion is prohibited at [...]
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Retrogression in U.S. Reproductive Rights: The Ongoing Fight for Reproductive Autonomy
This human rights “shadow report” was submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee on September 12, 2023 by a coalition of fifteen reproductive rights, health, and justice organizations in preparation for a review of U.S. [...]
Call for Submissions: 2023 Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights and Justice
08.28.2023—If/When/How, the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law and the Center for Reproductive Rights now invite submissions for the 18th annual Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive [...]
Media Highlights: Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA
Multiple outlets
Several leaders from the Center for Reproductive Rights have been interviewed about Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA. Below are media highlights. “A federal judge suspends FDA's longtime approval of an abortion pill, but gives [...]
News Coverage: Texas District Court Ruling in Zurawski v. State of Texas
Multiple outlets
Judge Jessica Mangrum’s August 4 ruling on Zurawski v. State of Texas clarified the medical exception in the state’s abortion bans, enabling physicians to use their “good faith judgment,” in consultation with their pregnant patients, [...]
Women’s Stories in Center’s Texas Case ‘May Change the Abortion Narrative’
Boston Globe
Mary Ziegler writes in the Boston Globe about the power of the women’s testimony in the Center’s Zurawski v. State of Texas case.
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