Tag: mississippi abortion case
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 […]
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 explains that even with Roe and Casey in place, people have been widely subject to coercive state power and civil […]
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 with important and long recognized constitutional principles and overturning them would undermine other individual rights and equality decisions, particularly those […]
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 carry significant risks to survivors, and they therefore need meaningful access to abortion alongside other health and social services. The […]
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 for Choice, National Council of Jewish Women, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, and over 50 other organizations. Amici present the […]
