Tag: Mississippi

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 […]

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 […]