A 17 year old was diagnosed with an anencephalic fetus. Her hospital physician recommended a lawful therapeutic abortion, but the hospital director refused, forcing her to carry to term. The newborn died four days after birth, and the 17 year old suffered severe physical and psychological harm. Peru offered no effective administrative or judicial remedy and did not cooperate before the Committee.
Rosati (plaintiff) was a transgender woman suffering from gender incongruence while incarcerated in the state of California. Prison officials refused to provide her with medically necessary gender affirmation surgery on the recommendation of a physician’s assistant who had no experience in transgender medicine, and despite the plaintiff attempting repeated self-castrations. Rosati filed a pro se lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
