Tag: mississippi 15-week ban
Violence Against Providers Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
Amici are organizations and individuals with longstanding personal experience and expertise concerning the pervasive pattern of violence and threats of violence directed at abortion providers. This brief cautions that Mississippi’s argument for overruling the Court’s longstanding precedents ignores violent anti-abortion extremism, a prominent part of the history of post-Roe abortion in America. Amici in this […]
Providers’ Perspectives Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
Amici are professional, membership, and training programs for abortion providers including the Abortion Care Network, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, Medical Students for Choice, National Abortion Federation, Physicians for Reproductive Health, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In this brief healthcare professionals describe – in their own words – why they provide abortion care […]
Abortion Funds Amicus Brief in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
Amici are nonprofit organizations that provide financial and practical support to vulnerable people seeking abortion care throughout the United States. This brief draws on the experience of amici abortion funds and explains how persistent and formidable barriers routinely prevent some people from obtaining abortion care before fifteen weeks of pregnancy. Amici’s clients typically experience multiple […]
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 points in their lives –whether entering adulthood, accessing higher education, or beginning their careers – two generations of young women […]
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 to the liberty and equality guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. This is a right that remains critical, notwithstanding advances in […]
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 how people of color and other marginalized people face barriers to fully realizing their right to reproductive autonomy, and how […]
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 safeguard religious pluralism and avoid religiously based strife. Amici argue that the viability standard respects religious pluralism and keeps matters […]
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 essential to women’s reproductive autonomy and anything less would create a “jurisprudence of doubt.” Amici contend that upholding the Mississippi […]
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 bodily autonomy in order to plan their families and futures for over 50 years. Amici have personally relied on these […]
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 have access to comprehensive reproductive health services. The brief argues that upholding the Mississippi ban would open another dark chapter […]
