reproductive health

Plaintiff, the Eternal World TV Network—a Catholic network with 350 employees—was required to provide health insurance for its employees, which would include coverage for contraceptives, under the Affordable Care Act. Plaintiff contended that using or providing contraceptives violated a deeply-held tenant of its belief system and that the accommodation provided to religious nonprofit organizations under the Affordable Care Act still amounted to government coercion to change its beliefs.

In June Medical Services v. Russo, 591 U.S. 299 (2020), the U.S.

The defendant was prosecuted in the Supreme Court of Seychelles for procuring an abortion, violating Section 148 of the Penal Code. The defendant was charged with unlawfully administering pills to induce a miscarriage. She pleaded guilty and expressed remorse for her actions. In sentencing, the Court imposed a two-year suspended sentence together with a monetary fine, taking into account her plea and contrition.

In 2008, a parliamentary minority petitioned the Constitutional Court to declare a Ministry of Health decree that authorized the availability of family planning methods and the distribution of emergency contraception in public health centers to be unconstitutional. The Court held that the “right to life,” as enshrined in the Chilean Constitution, outweighed access to emergency contraception. It rejected scientific arguments that emergency contraception does not affect a conceived but not yet implanted embryo.