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Under United States Federal law (8 U.S.C. § 1401), a person is a United States national and citizen if: the person is born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof; the person is born in the United States to a member of an Indian, Inuit, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe (see Indian Citizenship Act of 1924)
Birthright is the concept of things being due to a person upon or by fact of their birth, or due to the order of their birth. These may include rights of citizenship based on the place where the person was born or the citizenship of their parents, and inheritance rights to property owned by parents or others.
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
Birthright International is an international organization of crisis pregnancy centers.It offers a range of services, to an estimated 10 million women, [1] designed to "help support a woman's desire not to have an abortion," including referrals to legal, medical and psychological services, as well as a range of community support assistance such as financial aid.
A topographic map of the United States. The United States is the world's third-largest country by total area behind Russia and Canada. [d] [180] [181] The 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia occupy a combined area of 3,119,885 square miles (8,080,470 km 2).
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The court held that the rights of the fetus at or near birth outweighed the rights of Pemberton to determine her own medical care. [116] [117] She was physically forced to stop laboring, and taken to the hospital, where a c-section was performed. [115] Her suit against the hospital was dismissed. [115]
United States reproductive rights case law (1 C, 28 P) Pages in category "Reproductive rights in the United States" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.