Tag: abortion
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Celebrating International Women’s Day by Promoting Pro-Women Constitutional Amendments: A Risky Strategy?
—Tania Groppi, Università degli Studi di Siena [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] March 8, 2024, International Women’s Day, was marked, in France and in Ireland, by two constitutionally significant events with very different outcomes.
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Abortion and Selective Conscientious Objection
—Teresa Violante, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] Universal conscientious objection in the health sector challenges the provision of legally guaranteed services, thus possibly jeopardizing the right to health of affected persons.
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On the Legacy of Justice Scalia in Dobbs: The Lack of Comparative Analysis
–Stefanus Hendrianto, Pontifical Gregorian University Much has been and will be written about Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion, and which overruled both Roe v.
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Overturning of Roe v Wade: Time to Rethink US Engagement With International Human Rights Law?
—Frédéric Mégret, Professor and Dawson Scholar, Faculty of Law, McGill University The aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is leading lawyers throughout the US to fathom its implications, state by state. This drilling down is as it should be, given US constitutional and federal dynamics.
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Gender Equality and the Complete Decriminalisation of Abortion
—Mara Malagodi, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law [Editors’ Note: This is one of our biweekly ICONnect columns. For more information on our four columnists for 2021, please see here.] Recent legal changes in a number of jurisdictions that have entirely decriminalised abortion are steeped in the language of gender constitutionalism and…
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The Decriminalization of Abortion: A Landmark Decision by the Mexican Supreme Court
—Joy Monserrat Ochoa Martínez, UNAM and the Mexican Supreme Court, and Roberto Niembro Ortega, Universidad Iberoamericana and the Mexican Supreme Court; co-Chair, ICON-S Mexico Several weeks ago, the Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment recognizing a right to voluntary abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy.
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One Weird Trick To Defeat Judicial Review: Process as Outcome
—Matthew Reid Krell, Lecturer of Law, University of the West Indies Cave Hill As I write this, a puzzling event has occurred in the United States: the law governing access to abortion has changed. But it changed without Congress enacting a law, without the Supreme Court issuing a ruling, and in fact, without anyone taking…
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Symposium–The Croatian Constitutional Court’s Abortion Decision: Finding Common Ground Amid Differences in Approach
[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is pleased to feature a three-part symposium on the Croatian Constitutional Court’s 2017 ruling on abortion. This is the final entry in this symposium, which has been generously organized by Professor Djordje Gardasevic. The Introduction to the symposium is available here and the second entry is available here.]
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Symposium–The Croatian Constitutional Court’s Abortion Decision: A Nominal Win for Reproductive Freedom
[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is pleased to feature a three-part symposium on the Croatian Constitutional Court’s 2017 ruling on abortion. The symposium is kindly organized by Professor Djordje Gardasevic. The Introduction to the symposium is available here. This entry is the second of three parts in this symposium.]
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Constitutional Dialogues and Abortion Law Reform in Argentina: What’s Next?
—Paola Bergallo, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina [Editor’s note: This is one of our I-CONnect columns. Columns, while scholarly in accordance with the tone of the blog and about the same length as a normal blog post, are a bit more “op-ed” in nature than standard posts.