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371 judgments found.
Country:
Denmark Year: 1976
Court: European Court of Human Rights
Citation: Kjeldsen v. Den., App. No. 5095/71, Eur. Ct. H.R. 6 (1976).
Health Topics:
Child and adolescent health,
Health information,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Freedom of religion,
Right to education,
Right to family life,
Right to privacy Facts: Appellants were parents of children who had attended Denmark public schools until they were refused exemption from the country’s compulsory sex education lessons. The parents claimed a violation of the right to education under Article 2 of Protocol 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Convention) because the alternatives to public education included costly …Read more
Tags: Awareness,
Child development,
Children,
Freedom of information,
Health education,
Health promotion,
Minor
Country:
United States Year: 1975
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 421 U.S. 809 (1975)
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Freedom of expression Facts: Appellant Bigelow was the managing editor of a newspaper. An edition of the paper, under which appellant had direct responsibility, contained an advertisement for abortion services summarized by the Court as follows: [T]he advertisement announced that the Women’s Pavilion of New York City would help women with unwanted pregnancies to obtain “immediate placement in accredited …Read more
Tags: Abortion,
Access to treatment,
Advertising,
Criminalization,
Family planning,
Maternal health,
Maternal mortality,
Notification,
Pregnancy,
Termination of pregnancy
Country:
France Year: 1975
Court: Conseil constitutionnel [Constitutional Council]
Citation: C. C., n°74-54 DC, 15 January 1975
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Right to health,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life Facts: Please note: This opinion is unusual as it does not include the factual background. These facts listed below are developed from alternative sources. Before the promulgation of the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Act, 88 senators made a referral to the French constitutional court challenging the constitutionality of the new bill according to article 61 of …Read more
Tags: Abortion,
Access to health care,
Access to treatment,
Late-term abortion,
Termination of pregnancy,
Therapeutic abortion
Country:
United States Year: 1973
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to privacy Facts: Petitioners brought this challenge to provisions of the Texas Penal Code, which prohibited anyone from procuring or attempting an abortion, except on “medical advice for the purpose of saving the life of the mother.” Petitioner Jane Roe was an unmarried, pregnant woman who sought to terminate her pregnancy by an abortion “performed by a competent, …Read more
Tags: Abortion,
Access to treatment,
Criminalization,
Family planning,
Maternal health,
Maternal mortality,
Pregnancy,
Termination of pregnancy,
Unsafe abortion
Country:
United States Year: 1973
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 410 U.S. 179 (1973)
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Poverty,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Right to family life,
Right to health,
Right to life,
Right to privacy Facts: Mary Doe, under a pseudonym, was a married, twenty-two year old mother living in Georgia. At the time of this case, she already had three children, two in foster care and the third given up for adoption due to her inability to provide for them. She sought an abortion from the Grady Memorial Hospital Abortion …Read more
Tags: Abortion,
Abortion counseling,
Access to treatment,
Clinics,
Conscientious objection,
Family planning,
Health care professionals,
Health care workers,
Health facilities,
Low income,
Poor,
Pregnancy,
Private hospitals,
Public hospitals,
Termination of pregnancy,
Therapeutic abortion
Country:
United States Year: 1972
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 405 U.S. 438 (1972)
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Medicines,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to privacy Facts: The Respondent was convicted under chapter 272 of the Massachusetts General Laws (Crimes Against Chastity, Morality, Decency and Good Order) (the Act) for exhibiting contraceptive articles while presenting a lecture on contraception to a group of university students, and for providing a contraceptive article to a young woman after the lecture. Section 21 of the …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs,
Access to medicines,
Access to treatment,
Birth control,
Contraception,
Contraceptives,
Family planning
Country:
Australia Year: 1969
Court: Supreme Court of Victoria
Citation: [1969] VR 667
Health Topics:
Sexual and reproductive health,
Violence Human Rights: Right to health,
Right to life Facts: Davidson was a medical doctor who was charged of four counts of unlawfully using an instrument and one count of conspiring to use an instrument or other means with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman.
Tags: Abortion,
Childbirth,
Criminalization,
Maternal health,
Maternal mortality,
Pregnancy,
Rape,
Termination of pregnancy,
Therapeutic abortion
Country:
United States Year: 1965
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 381 U.S. 479 (1965)
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Medicines,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to privacy Facts: The Appellants, who had opened a birth control clinic, were convicted under the General Statutes of Connecticut of 1958 (the Act) as accessories in crime for providing information and medical advice on contraception and prescribing contraceptives to married individuals. The Act criminalized the use of “any drug, medicinal article or instrument” by any person “for …Read more
Tags: Access to drugs,
Access to medicines,
Access to treatment,
Birth control,
Contraception,
Contraceptives,
Family planning
Country:
Ghana Year: 1961
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: [1961] SCGLR 708-716
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Right to due process/fair trial Facts: In June 1960, Wilhelmina Richter was admitted to Korle Bu Hospital. She was suffering from general peritonitis and told the doctors that an operation had been performed on her to procure an abortion. Ms. Richter had become pregnant in February of 1960 and, according to her testimony, approached Mr. Kesson, then a senior master for …Read more
Tags: Abortion,
Abortion technique,
Access to health care,
Criminalization,
Emergency care,
Health care professionals,
Health care workers,
Late-term abortion,
Maternal health,
Termination of pregnancy,
Unsafe abortion
Country:
United States Year: 1942
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 316 U.S. 535 (1942)
Health Topics:
Informed consent,
Prisons,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Right to bodily integrity,
Right to family life,
Right to liberty and security of person Facts: Petitioner brought a constitutional challenge to provisions of Oklahoma’s Habitual Criminal Sterilization Act of 1935 (the Act), which permitted sentences of compulsory sterilization for “habitual offenders” in crimes involving “moral turpitude.” Pursuant to section 195 of the Act, the same sentence did not extend to white-collar crimes, defined as those “offenses arising out of the …Read more
Tags: Compulsory treatment,
Detention,
Forced treatment,
Imprisonment,
Incarceration,
Inmate,
Involuntary treatment,
Jail,
Non-consensual testing and treatment,
Sterilization