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The court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that this right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests in regulating abortions: protecting women's health and protecting the potentiality of human life. [153] Doe v.
On March 11, 2020, Hosseinzadeh was released on furlough and on May 19, 2020, due to her health condition (autoimmune disease [6]) and the implementation of the new year's compassionate release she was released again. On June 21, 2020, a new case was brought up and she was released on bail after attending the prosecutor's office.
The International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) is a non-governmental organization founded in 1984 based in New York City.It focuses on issues relating to women and girls' human rights, health and equality and represents part of the women's movement that recognizes that many challenges to gender equality lie in challenges in health issues and in raising families. [1]
Leila Hassan Howe (born 13 June 1948) is a British editor and activist, who was a founding member of the Race Today Collective in 1973, having previously worked for the Institute of Race Relations. She became editor of the Race Today journal in 1986.
Health Care for Women International is a monthly peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering health care and related topics that concern women around the globe. It is the official journal for Women's Health Issues and it is published by Taylor & Francis. Its editor-in-chief is Eleanor Krassen Covan (University of North Carolina at Wilmington). [1]
The Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (GAMCOTRAP) is a Gambian NGO established in 1984. It campaigns against female genital mutilation , and aims to promote and secure health and empowerment for women through community education .
CWGCS, founded in 1978, is the first university-affiliated research center dedicated to women's issues in the United States. [4] Linda Tarr-Whelan, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and former deputy assistant to United States President Jimmy Carter, co-founded CWGCS with Nancy Perlman, CWGCS' first executive director.
Any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil ...