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Young Women Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Amici are YWCA USA, Girls Inc., Supermajority Education Fund, and United State of Women. This brief demonstrates young women’s support for, and reliance on, the constitutional right to abortion care.  Amici explain how, throughout critical [...]

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Women’s Equality and Economic Opportunity Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Amici are the National Women’s Law Center and other organizations committed to gender equality. The brief argues that the Constitution prohibits pre-viability abortion bans because the right to decide to end a pregnancy is critical [...]

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Reproductive Justice Organizations Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Amici are reproductive justice advocates and organizers including Mississippi in Action, Women With A Vision, Access to Reproductive Care - Southeast, and In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda. The brief outlines [...]

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Religious Pluralism Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Amici are Americans United for Separation of Church and State, American Humanist Association, Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, and Interfaith Alliance Foundation. The brief explains that the constitutional order is designed to [...]

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Puerto Rican Organizations Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Amici are Campaña Nacional Por El Aborto Libre, Segura y Accessible (National Campaign for Free, Safe and Accessible Abortion), and other Puerto Rican organizations. Amici argue that the Court’s precedent prohibiting pre-viability abortion bans is [...]

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Organizations of Women Lawyers Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Amici are Women Lawyers on Guard, Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia, National Association of Women Lawyers, and other organizations of women lawyers. People have relied on their right to individual liberty and [...]

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Native American Communities Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Amici are Cecilia Fire Thunder, National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, Native American Community Board, and over 30 other organizations and over 225 individuals committed to ensuring that Native people in the United States and Territories [...]

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Pregnancy Rights Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Amici are the National Advocates for Pregnant Women and other organizations that advocate for the health, rights, and justice of all people in the United States who have the capacity to become pregnant. This brief [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.

LGBTQ Organizations Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Amici are LGBTQ organizations. The brief argues that stare decisis compels the Court to adhere to precedent and that overruling Roe and Casey would cause serious harm to LGBTQ people. Roe and Casey are consistent [...]

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Gender-Based Violence Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Amici are experts in law, social science, and advocacy supporting survivors of intimate partner violence. Mississippi’s abortion ban would disproportionately harm survivors of intimate partner violence, particularly survivors of color. Coerced pregnancy and forced childbearing [...]

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Faith-Based Groups Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Amici are organizations from a broad range of religious traditions and faiths that are dedicated to protecting a person’s moral authority to terminate a pregnancy in consultation with their faith, values, and conscience, including Catholics [...]

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Disability Rights Organizations Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Amici are the Autistic Self Advocacy Network and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund. Amici address why constitutional protection for bodily autonomy is of vital importance to persons with disabilities. Persons with disabilities have [...]

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Criminalization of People Who Have Abortions Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

Amici are researchers, healthcare professionals, attorneys, and advocates for sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice united in opposition to the criminalization of people who end their own pregnancies or experience pregnancy loss. The brief [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.