Congratulations and thanks to Godfrey Dalitso Kangaude, Catriona MacLeod, Ernestina Coast, and Tamara Fetters, whose article, “Integrating child rights standards in contraceptive and abortion care for minors in Africa,” suggests that African countries integrate child rights principles in clinical guidelines and protocols to provide high-quality contraceptive and abortion care for minor girls. The article appeared in the Ethical and Legal Issues in Reproductive Health section of the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. The full text is available online, and we are pleased to circ ..read more

Congratulations and thanks to Dr. Elena Caruso, whose article on “The Hyper-Regulation of Abortion Care in Italy” was recently published in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics‘ “Ethical and Legal Issues in Reproductive Health” section, edited by Professors Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens and Charles G. Ngwena. The author, Elena Caruso, is an Italian legal scholar who completed a doctorate in Law at Kent University and who now holds an AMTD Waterloo Global Talent Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. We are pleased to circulate the foll ..read more

Congratulations to Leticia Bonifaz Alfonzo and Rosalba Mora Sierra, whose article on the 2023 decriminalization of abortion by the Mexican Supreme Court was recently published in the “Ethical and Legal Issues” section of the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and is now freely available. Leticia Bonifaz Alfonzo, a member of the UN CEDAW committee, is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. Rosalba Mora Sierra is Director of Access to Justice at the General Unit of Scientific Knowledge and Human Rights, Mexican Supreme Court in Mexico ..read more

Congratulations and thanks to Professors Rebecca Cook and Bernard Dickens, whose article on comparative abortion law is the first chapter in the 3rd edition of Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, edited by Jan M. Smits, Jaakko Husa, Catherine Valcke, and Madalena Narciso (Cheltenham, UK: Elgar Publishing, 2023). It is now freely available online. We are pleased to circulate the following abstract: Rebecca J. Cook and Bernard M. Dickens, “Abortion,” in Jan M. Smits, Jaakko Husa, Catherine Valcke and Madalena Narciso, eds., Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, 3rd ed., (Cheltenham, UK: Elga ..read more

SUBSCRIBE TO REPROHEALTHLAW: To receive these updates by email, enter your address in upper right corner of this webpage, then check your email to confirm the subscription. DEVELOPMENTS [Argentina, preventable maternal death,”obstetric violence”] Britez Arce et. al. v. Argentina. (Inter-American Court of Human Rights, November 16, 2022). Decision in English. Decision in Spanish. Press Release Jan 18, 2023. Comment by CRR. [Earlier: Merits report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Report 236/19, Case 13.002. Report in English-download.) [Bolivia, rape of a minor, revictimization ..read more

Congratulations to Professor Joanna N. Erdman, MacBain Chair in Health Law and Policy at the Schulich School of Law in Dalhousie University, who served as a technical advisor with the WHO’s Department of Reproductive Health and Research and as a member of the Law and Policy Evidence and Recommendation Review Group, and the Guideline Development Group for the 2022 Abortion Care Guidelines. Her article on WHO’s new guideline was recently published in the Ethical and Legal Issues in Reproductive Health section of the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. We are pleased to circulate ..read more

Congratulations to Prof. Rebecca Cook, whose edited volume, FRONTIERS OF GENDER EQUALITY: TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL PERSPECTIVES, was published in May 2023 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Professor Cook’s entire introduction to the book is now online, as well as abstracts of each chapter through the Table of Contents below: Rebecca J. Cook, “Many Paths to Gender Equality,” in Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023). (publisher’s page). Introduction now online. In “Many Paths to Gender Equality,” Rebecca Cook shows how a chorus ..read more

Congratulations and thanks to Isabel C Jaramillo Sierra, a Professor of Law at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. As she explains in “The new Colombian law on abortion“ published in the Ethical and Legal Issues in Reproductive Health section of the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the new law authorizes abortions on request up to week twenty-four and on an indications model for the remaining weeks of pregnancy. We are pleased to circulate the following abstract: “The new Colombian law on abortion,” by Isabel C Jaramillo Sierra, International Journal of Gynecology and Ob ..read more

The University of Pennsylvania Press is celebrating Women’s History Month with an unprecedented 40% discount (before March 31) on all books in their “Women’s Collection” including Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives (edited by Rebecca J. Cook), which is forthcoming on May 30. To receive the 40% discount, use the discount code “WHM2023-FM” at checkout before March 31, 2023.  The following two chapters may be of particular interest to REPROHEALTHLAW blog subscribers: 16. Gender Equality in Health Care: Reenvisioning CEDAW Genera ..read more

Congratulations and thanks to Martha F. Davis, University Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, MA, whose recently published contribution to the Ethical and Legal Issues in Reproductive Health section of the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics discusses how the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, has opened the door to new abortion restrictions, complicating care and threatening providers. We are pleased to circulate the following abstract: Martha F. Davis “The state of abortion rights in t ..read more