Tag: mississippi 15-week ban

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 explains that even with Roe and Casey in place, people have been widely subject to coercive state power and civil […]

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 with important and long recognized constitutional principles and overturning them would undermine other individual rights and equality decisions, particularly those […]

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 carry significant risks to survivors, and they therefore need meaningful access to abortion alongside other health and social services. The […]

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 for Choice, National Council of Jewish Women, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and over 50 other organizations. Amici present the […]

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 long been denied control over their own bodies and face multiple barriers to reproductive health care, including abortion. The dignity […]

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 argues that the Mississippi ban would exacerbate the risk that people be criminalized for self-managing abortions. Criminalization of people who […]

Amicus is the Howard University School of Law Human and Civil Rights Clinic. This brief places Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks within the historical context of state regulation of Black women’s procreative liberty. Black women have been denied bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom since slavery. Amicus argues that Mississippi’s law is the latest […]

Amici are the National Birth Equity Collaborative and other organizations and individuals that focus on improving maternal health outcomes. The brief explains how the United States already faces a maternal health crisis, one that disproportionately affects Black women. Ensuring that pregnant people have access to the full range of reproductive choices, including abortion, is essential […]

Amici are National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, and 29 other community-based, advocacy, and social services organizations that work with and on behalf of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, as well as bar associations that represent the interests of AAPI women. People in the AAPI community already face […]

Amici are Advocates for Youth and We Testify, representing over 6,600 people who have had abortions. This brief shares the stories of people who have relied on the right of abortion to define themselves, to control their bodies and lives, and to define their place in society. These stories reveal the varied nature of real-life […]