Tag: mississippi 15-week ban

Amici are over 500 women athletes, the Women’s National Basketball Players Association, the National Women’s Soccer League Players Association, and Athletes for Impact.   The brief recounts the incredible growth of women’s athletics since the time Roe was decided. It demonstrates, through first-hand accounts, the myriad ways that bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom are essential […]

Amici are over 100 social science experts who have collectively spent decades conducting and publishing peer-reviewed research about the safety, incidence, and health impacts of abortion in the United States. Research cited by amici demonstrates that abortion is one of the most common and safest medical procedures performed in the U.S. The brief explains why […]

Amici are over 540 individual deans, chairs, scholars, and public health professionals, the American Public Health Association, the Guttmacher Institute, and the Center for U.S. Policy. The brief demonstrates that abortion is an essential component of the full continuum of reproductive health care and explains the far-reaching public health consequences that would flow from pre-viability abortion […]

Amici are the American Society for Legal History and historians and academics with expertise in the law, history, and politics of reproduction in the United States. The brief seeks to clarify the historical record regarding the claim by Mississippi that Roe drove the division and polarization around abortion, which amici show is historically inaccurate. Amici […]

Amici are the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. The brief argues that newly accessible historical evidence strongly supports Roe’s finding that the history and traditions relating to the common law upheld the individual right to decide to terminate a pregnancy. Amici explain that the early U.S. followed the common law, which […]

Amici are over 150 economists and researchers with extensive experience in the field of causal inference. The brief explains that since Casey, advances in statistical methodology have allowed for new ways to measure the causal impact of abortion on women’s lives. The research suggests that Roe played a causal role in women’s advancements in social […]

Amici are the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the US Association for the Study of Pain, and leading doctors and researchers in the field of fetal care and pain. The brief explains that there is well-established and widely accepted scientific evidence and medical consensus that a fetus cannot experience pain […]

Amici are the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Medical Association, and 23 other leading national medical societies and associations committed to the provision of safe, quality reproductive healthcare, including abortion. Amici’s position is that Mississippi’s ban on abortions is fundamentally at odds with the provision of safe and essential health care and […]

Amici are Human Rights Watch, Global Justice Center, and Amnesty International. The brief details the impact that abortion bans and restrictions have globally on individuals’ health and, in particular, disadvantaged people living in poverty and minority populations. It explains how countries around the world allow abortion on broad grounds and that the right to abortion […]

Amicus is the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO). Global experience shows that legally restricting abortion care results in more abortions that are unsafe, not fewer abortions overall. Harms from unsafe abortion fall disproportionately on poor and marginalized people, exacerbating social inequality. The brief argues that the global trend toward liberalization has contributed to […]